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Let them (children) be taught to have pity for the animals that are at our mercy, that cannot protect themselves, that cannot explain their weakness, their pain or their suffering.
Soon this will bring to their attention that higher law, the moral obligation of man as a superior being to protect and care for the weak and defenceless.
Nor will it stop there, for this in turn will lead them to that highest law - man's duty to man
- Ralph Waldo Trine
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth.
One is nearer God's Heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on Earth
- Dorothy Frances Gurney
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the centre of the target, he turns round and seeks the cause of his failure in himself
- Confucius
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
I suppose the thing that I would like to have known or be reassured about is that in the world, what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy or concentration or commitment, is kindness. And the more in the world you encounter kindness - or cheerfulness which is kind of its amiable uncle or aunt - the more ... just the better the world always is. And all the big words - virtue, justice, truth - are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
- Stephen Fry ('What I Wish I'd Known When I Was 18')
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble
- Charles H. Spurgeon
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
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