Compassion: From a Latin meaning “to suffer together”
Compassion: A sympathetic consciousness
Compassion: A feeling of wanting to help someone in need
Compassion: Mercy, tenderness, heart, clemency, sympathy, commiseration, feeling, empathy, care, concern, solicitude, sensitivity, warmth, love, tenderness, leniency, kindness, charity, pity, humanitarianism
Compassion: A worthy characteristic regardless of religious or nonreligious preferences
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. (Dalai Lama)
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. (Albert Schweitzer)
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. (Albert Einstein)
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. (Confucius)
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)
Compassion: An original composition for handbells by Jason Krug, performed by our handbell choir (Bells of Peace)
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