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Quotes About Compassion

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.
~ Jean Vanier, Finding Peace
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
~ Elie Wiesel
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
~ Booker T. Washington
We need a world-wide Department of Peace.
~ Anne Waldman
I seek peace, let me BE peace.
~ Michael Lerner
My goodness, there's nothing that feels better than to meditate, than to get quiet, and then to be at peace, and to tell someone you love them.
~ Wayne Dyer
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
~ Victor Hugo
Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.
~ Federico Mayor Zaragoza
There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
~ Carlos Santana
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
~ Desmond Tutu
We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.
~ Chuck Norris
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
~ Pope John Paul II
Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.
~ Hany Abu-Assad
By developing a sense of concern for others' well-being, then no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep inner peace.
~ Dalai Lama
Today wherever you go, carry the intention of peace, love, and harmony in your heart.
~ Deepak Chopra
Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
~ Abigail Van Buren
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
~ Florence Nightingale
Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.
~ Wilferd Peterson
May you bring unconditional love and infinite peace.
~ Alyson Noel, Blue Moon
And so this is Christmas...what have you done?
~ John Lennon
I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.
~ Dennis Rodman
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
~ Ram Dass
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.