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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts. – Barbara Garrison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. – Abraham Joshua Heschel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. – Dean Koontz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Make no judgements where you have no compassion. – Anne McCaffrey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. – Boris Pasternak	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all. – Theodore Isaac Rubin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Compassion is the basis of all morality. – Arthur Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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