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Quotes about Compassion

Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou
If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.
— Maya Angelou
Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.
— Maya Angelou
The minister's voice was a pendulum. Swinging for left and down and right and down and left and-How can you claim to be my brother, and hate me? Is that Charity? How can you claim to be my sister and despise me? Is that supposed to be Charity? How can you claim to be my friend and misuse and wrongfully abuse me? Is that Charity?...'now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
— Maya Angelou
You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together.
— Maya Angelou
Each of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.
— Maya Angelou
WHEN YOU LEARN, TEACH; WHEN YOU GET, GIVE
— Maya Angelou
My tears were not for Bailey or Mother or even myself but for the helplessness of mortals who live on the sufferance of Life.
— Maya Angelou
Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.
— Maya Angelou
My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
— Maya Angelou
I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources. I am happy to describe myself as charitable.
— Maya Angelou
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
— Maya Angelou