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The feeling of compassion for other living beings reminds me of the feeling of pain in our body. Just as you can become less sensitive to pain in your body with time, you can become less compassionate to others.
The first condition to bringing religion into your life is manifesting love and pity toward all living creatures.
—CHINESE WISDOM
Compassion for animals is closely connected with character type. You can say with confidence that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a kind man.
—ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every murder is terrible. But most terrible is the murder in which you want to eat the creature you have killed, when you kill for the satisfaction of your stomach.
—MIKHAIL GOLDSTEIN
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to him who suffers, and try to help him.