A few of our favorite quotes related to compassion for animals

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.
– Francis of Assisi

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated
– Mohandas Gandhi

And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, they who partake of benefits which are gotten by wronging one of God’s creatures, cannot be righteous; nor can they touch holy things, or teach the mysteries of the kingdom.. – The Gospel of the Holy Twelve

An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
– Martin Buber

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.
– Albert Einstein

“Nature is the art of God.”
“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The universe is one of God’s thoughts.”
– Friedrich Schiller

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.
– His Holiness The Dalai Lama

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

Ashley Montagu’s  quote about animals on this page.

“The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.”

I have always had a deep love for animals, and could never understand when others mistreated them, or were indifferent to them. I know I have often felt my spirit diminished by their indifference.

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.
– Albert Einstein

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
– Anatole France

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
– Abraham Lincoln

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his 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. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”
– Albert Einstein

“I am her – not separate – in the deepest heart of hearts. In essence, she will go with me to any manifest world. I had always known her and I always will. There is no time where I am her”.

Ready for change? Ready to change your attitude?

Do your next step, wherever you are. –  If not now, when?

Start contributing – Start caring – Get informed !!!!!

Pray or send supportive energy – Talk about it

Get involved – Donate – Sponsor – Foster – Adopt – Spay/neuter

Do a fundraiser – Change the laws

Be kind to animals and children – Become an advocate

~~ You can shed tears that he is gone, or you can smile because he lived. You can close your eyes and pray that he will come back, or you can open your eyes and see all that he has left. Your heart can be empty because you can’t see him, or you can be full of the love that you shared. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember him and only that he is gone, or you can cherish his memory and let it live on. You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn back, or you can do what he would want: “Smile, open your eyes, love and go on.” ~~
~ David Harkins~

“When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.” ~ Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), Indian (India) founder of Buddhism religion and philosophy

“The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race, form the blackest chapter in the whole world’s history.”
– Edward Freeman,English Freelance Historian and Journalist

“The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

“A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.”
– Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary