Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Travelling Thoughts

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way ...

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair ...

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals ...

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world ...

[Source : Compassion Quotes]