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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
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
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
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
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
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
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
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
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
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
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
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
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
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
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
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
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
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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