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The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested. ↗

— Richard Gere

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What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love. ↗

— Richard Gere

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

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I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ↗

— Ted Olson

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I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well. ↗

— Joel Osteen

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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion. ↗

— Major Owens

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