“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
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Albert Schweitzer
3 quotes“The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”
William Wordsworth
3 quotes“That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
Simone de Beauvoir
3 quotes“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation an...”
Plato
3 quotes“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
Dalai Lama
3 quotes“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”
Barack Obama
3 quotes“Our values call upon us to care about people we'll never meet.”
Mother Teresa
2 quotes“Give, but give until it hurts.”
Anne Frank
2 quotes“Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”
Buddha
2 quotes“Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion...”
Indira Gandhi
2 quotes“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Horace Mann
2 quotes“To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.”
Charlie Chaplin
2 quotes“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.”