I LOVE quotes, the pithier the more I love them, the shorter the better, I am a sucker for wit, and a well expressed turn of a phrase...(eh D?)

Date:   8/30/2005 4:32:10 AM ( 19 y ago)

Quotes - Compassion


'There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being'

'You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.' -- Woodrow Wilson

'Treat every person with kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you. Remember that you show compassion to others not because of who they are but because of who you are.'--Andrew T. Somers

'Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.' -- Helen Keller

'Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them? ...God said, 'I did do something. I made you.' Sufi Teaching




 

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