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Quotes About Compassion

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
~ George Orwell
More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.
~ Samuel von Pufendorf
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
~ Oscar Wilde
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.
~ Rumi
It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
~ Raymond Pettibon
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.
~ Fran Lebowitz
If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.
~ Dainin Katagiri
Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.
~ Rick Warren
Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.
~ Benjamin Hoff
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
~ John Muir
It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
~ Benjamin Franklin
We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.
~ E. F. Schumacher
I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.
~ Jessica Chastain
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
~ Clancy Brown
A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.
~ David W. Orr
Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
To understand the nature of love — that is to be a Christian!
~ Rudolf Steiner
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Our purpose is simple... To Love To love each other, to love all life and to love our earth.
~ Anthony D. Williams
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt