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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
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The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The greatness of a nation can be judged
by the way its animals are treated.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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