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"It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them."
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"The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case."

"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."

"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you."

"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."

"Be the help you seek from others."

"When question ariseHelp or not to helpAlways help."
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"Great compassion is the root of altruistic action, the object of amazement to the world;there is no greater source of help and happiness."

"To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness."

"Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek."

"One of the parrots was very friendly with...Master of the Robes. He used to feed it nuts. As it nibbled from his fingers, he used to stroke its head, at which the bird appeared to enter a state of ecstasy. I very much wanted this kind of friendliness and several times tried to get a similar response, but to no avail. So I took a stick to punish it. Of course, thereafter it fled at the sight of me. This was a very good lesson in how to make friends: not by force but by compassion."

"I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks."

"I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious."
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