#compassion

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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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

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And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

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Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

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Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference. ↗

— Meryl Streep

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Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

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He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

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