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Quotes About Compassion

Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!
~ Pope Francis
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Peace will come when people have food.
~ Momofuku Ando
Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
~ Peace Pilgrim
May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.
~ Joan Z. Borysenko
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
~ Franz Kafka
You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.
~ Dorothy Rowe
[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.
~ Amy Goodman
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
~ Thomas Aquinas
If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.
~ Mother Teresa
By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.
~ Martha Gellhorn
I spread the message of oneness in life and living. This is the way to peace on earth. This is the mission of my life, and I pray that it may be fulfilled.
~ Kirpal Singh
We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.
~ Nelly Sachs
Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.
~ Judith Orloff, Second Sight
Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
~ Ahmed Ben Bella
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.
~ Leo Tolstoy
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
~ Henry James
Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.
~ Monique Wittig
I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.
~ Hugo Chavez
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.
~ Gautama Buddha
Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.
~ Marianne Williamson
If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.
~ Cesar Chavez