“That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
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Dalai Lama
3 quotes“The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question...”
Barack Obama
3 quotes“Our values call upon us to care about people we'll never meet.”
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...”
Albert Schweitzer
3 quotes“The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”
Plato
3 quotes“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
2 quotes“Compassion is a verb.”
Sir Walter Scott
2 quotes“O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wo...”
Horace Mann
2 quotes“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
Anne Frank
2 quotes“Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”
Indira Gandhi
2 quotes“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Susan Sontag
2 quotes“It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.”
St. Francis of Assisi
2 quotes“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”