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We need to be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

— Plato

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

— Charles Dickens

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

— Abraham Lincoln

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

— Mother Teresa

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

— Dalai Lama

Grief can be the garden of compassion.

— Rumi

Compassion is the basis of morality.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

— Bertrand Russell

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

— Emily Dickinson

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal.

— Rumi

Love is the absence of judgment.

— Dalai Lama

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

— Charles Dickens

There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.

— Mother Teresa

Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

— Nelson Mandela

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

— Mother Teresa

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

— Henry David Thoreau

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes.

— Emily Dickinson

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