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Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart 
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
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Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
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 you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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
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 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
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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 value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
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 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
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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