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compassion quotes

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“For 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, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“the highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.” Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?
“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.” Edith Wharton, House of Mirth
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when all this ends. For the moment I know this; there are sick people and they need curing.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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