Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Compassion
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How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.
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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals
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Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
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