It is a man's sympathy
with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of
compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace." - Albert
Schweitzer
"I can do no other
than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than
to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the
foundation of all ethics." - Albert Schweitzer
"By
compassion we mean the deep feeling that comes when we recognize our soul's
reflection in another person, when that other person's pain or joy becomes our
own. Cindy Spring , Charles Garfield "Wisdom Circles
"
"Compassion is an
emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth,
is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should
not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a
selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses
of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping
orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our
amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty."Hugh
Blair
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