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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We’re habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it’s behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I’m simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it’s very difficult, but it’s doable.

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another’s happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

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.

Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. Being attentive to the needs of others might not be the point of life, but it is the work of life. It can be messy, and painful, and almost impossibly difficult. But it is not something we give. It is what we get in exchange for having to die.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I’ve always wanted to be able to fly! That’s a dream of mine.

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death…and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.