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I had to, forgive me if you already know. Tolerate me if you don't like 'quotes' I usually don't like them either. Tell me if you think I am wrong. Add your own thoughts, whatever, I believe compassion is sometimes lacking, it can only benefit those that own this ability to empathise with others suffering and celebrate in their joy. I CARE
QUOTES ABOUT COMPASSION --------------
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. Arnold Toynbee
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. William Cowper
Compassion is no substitute for justice. Rush Limbaugh
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. Eric Hoffer
Compassion is the basis of all morality. Arthur Schopenhauer
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. Thomas Browne
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. Milan Kundera
QUOTES ABOUT COMPASSION --------------
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. Arnold Toynbee
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. William Cowper
Compassion is no substitute for justice. Rush Limbaugh
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. Eric Hoffer
Compassion is the basis of all morality. Arthur Schopenhauer
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. Thomas Browne
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. Milan Kundera
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
As a teenager I couldn't sleep thinking of all the pain in the world. I feel it more than I do my own
THAT is compassion.
Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama
I see you are a Schopenhauer reader.
Sorry for the repeat.
How about:
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
-Thurgood Marshall
But that's the quoting side of me.
Perhaps what is lacking in a depressed person is compassion for themselves.
don't remember where it is from