"I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it." - Thomas Aquinas

💗 Compassion

“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.”

— Thomas Aquinas

You don't need to perfectly define compassion to live it. Feeling it in your bones and acting on it matters so much more than any textbook explanation ever could.

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