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“We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.”
“It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life...”
“The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.”
“Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnet...”
“I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.”
“It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion grow within us. We need a sustained effort to cultivate such positive qualities.”
“Your heart is your life. What keeps you going and what gives you hope. So wherever it leads you, whatever or whoever it lives for. Keep the beat.”
“For there comes a day on which we will see a mirror of judgement; to gaze not on man, but within ourselves. what cometh on that day in you? truth or despair? love or hate?”
“When love begs hatred & sorrow, show it your heart. For what you sow you reap, what you feel you seek.”
“We're all a part of this world, and it's up to us to make this one chance at living - living worth while. But the only way to do that is by doing it together.”
“Devotion to material possession, control or power; is the sole reason for hate. Devotion to the heart ... the sole reason for love.”
“I can still choose to be a person who is kind and full of love, a person who extends compassion to her fellow humans and even if I feel like our country is regressing a little, even if I'm embarras...”
“The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.”
“Everyone is overcoming something, be gentle.”
“The most valuable currency in life is compassion.”
“What Caul liked most about Tom was his kindness. Kindness was not valued back in Grimsby, where the older boys were encouraged to torment the younger ones, who would grow up to torment another batc...”
“This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me”
“No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their ...”
“When I became convinced that the Universe is natural that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy...”
“Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the ...”
