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“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”
Stevie Wonder
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
Dalai Lama
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
Confucius
“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”
“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy. Without the above qualities, selfless service cannot be performed.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.”
Albert Schweitzer
“The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-”
“No-one knows what the soul is.. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.”
Meister Eckhart
