“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

As quoted in A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages (2003) by Linda Pendleton.

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spiritual leader of Tibet 1935

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