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| A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart. | Robert Townsend | American Businessman, President of Avis |
| The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by COMPASSIONate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical o | Adrienne Rich | 1929-, American Poet |
| Until he extends his circle of COMPASSION to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. | Albert Schweitzer | 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theolog |
| The purpose of human life is to serve and show COMPASSION and the will to help others. | Albert Schweitzer | 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theolog |
| But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the COMPASSION of a fool. | Andre Maurois | 1885-1967, French Writer |
| In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. | Anne Baxter | 1923-1985, American Actress |
| Make no judgements where you have no COMPASSION. | Anne Mccaffrey | |
| Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing COMPASSION. | Arnold Bennett | 1867-1931, British Novelist |
| The value of COMPASSION cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be COMPASSIONate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or und | Arthur H. Stainback | |
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| News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Out of COMPASSION I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Ma |
| 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 | 1890-1960, Russian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive COMPASSION! | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| COMPASSION automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy. | Chogyam Trungpa | |
| Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners. | Colley Cibber | 1671-1757, British Actor-Manager, Playwright |
| Wisdom, COMPASSION, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| If you want others to be happy, practice COMPASSION. If you want to be happy, practice COMPASSION. | Dalai Lama | 1935-, Tibet Religious Leader Resides In India |
| When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet |
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| If we make our goal to live a life of COMPASSION and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow. | Elisabeth K | 1926-, Swiss-born American Psychiatrist |
| COMPASSION is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is COMPASSION even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations. | Erwin W. Lutzer | American Minister |
| The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with COMPASSION. | Everett M. Dirksen | 1896-1969, American Representative, Senator |
| Biblical orthodoxy without COMPASSION is surely the ugliest thing in the world. | Francis Schaeffer | 1912-1984, American Author |
| We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, COMPASSIONate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will h | George Washington Carver | 1864-1943, American Scientist |
| When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account. | Haniel Long | 1888-1956, American Author, Poet, Journalist |
| Scandal is merely the COMPASSIONate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. | Hector Hugh Munro | 1870-1916, British Novelist, Writer |
| Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented. | Heinrich Heine | 1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist |
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| I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more COMPASSION, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. | Hubert H. Humphrey | 1911-1978, American Democratic Politician, Vice Pr |
| COMPASSION has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. COMPASSION opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. | John Berger | 1926-, British Actor, Critic |
| Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. | Joseph Cook | |
| They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night. | Joseph Joubert | 1754-1824, French Moralist |
| As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences. | Joseph Stowell | |
| Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other. | Joseph Stowell | |
| The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, COMPASSION, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. | Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist |
| With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be COMPASSIONate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. | Keshavan Nair | |
| Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their COMPASSION wi | Leonard Cohen | 1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter |
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| The secret of successful speakers? Passion and COMPASSION with a purpose. | Lily Walters | |
| The dew of COMPASSION is a tear. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and disconten | Marlene Dietrich | 1904-1992, German-born American Film Actor |
| You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is COMPASSION. | Meister Eckhart | 1260-1326 AD, German Mystic |
| 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 echo | Milan Kundera | 1929-, Czech Author, Critic |
| Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being COMPASSIONate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with. | Myriam Miedzian | American Actor |
| The individual is capable of both great COMPASSION and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. | Norman Cousins | 1915-1990, American Editor, Humanitarian, Author |
| I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. | Pablo Casals | 1876-1973, Spanish Cellist, Conductor, Composer |
| Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass. | Paul Santaguida | |
| There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and COMPASSIONate. | Robert Frost | 1875-1963, American Poet |
