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Quotes about Compassion

My Nini wanted to get another dog, as much like Daisy as possible, but my Popo said that it was not a question of replacing her, but of trying to live without her. "I can't, Popo. I loved her so much!" I sobbed inconsolably. "That affection is inside you, Maya, not in Daisy. You can give it to other animals, and what's left over you can give to me
— Isabel Allende
The man of good heart maintained that a moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics (religious people) who faithfully go to mass (church) deny their workers a dignified wage. These words should be engraved on the thousand-peso note, so we never forget them.
— Isabel Allende
Occasions for appealing to public compassion are never wanting in a nation eternally rocked by catastrophes that shake the foundations of life, floods that sweep away entire towns, gigantic waves that deposit ships in the center of a plaza. We are created in the idea that life is precarious, and we are always waiting for the next calamity to happen.
— Isabel Allende
This is to assuage our conscience, darling," she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor.
— Isabel Allende
They're really good people. Quakers are always to be found where they're most needed.
— Isabel Allende
I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your cynical zone, and open yourself up to what other people might experience and why they do so.
— Todd Haynes
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.
— Albert Schweitzer
America is a willingness of the heart.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.
— Anonymous
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
— Woodrow Wilson
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
— Joseph Addison
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
— Abraham Lincoln