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Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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)
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
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
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
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
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
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
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
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Recall a recent time when someone was strongly critical
of your opinions (perhaps your political or religious beliefs).
Now, put yourself in their shoes - with compassion.
Try to understand and appreciate their point-of-view -
not to change your own opinions,
but to celebrate all our human differences - in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
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
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
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
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
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
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
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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