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Compassion Quotes
"If the boundaries of the self are defined by what we feel, then those who cannot feel even for themselves shrink within their own boundaries, while those who feel for others are enlarged, and those who feel compassion for all beings must be boundless. They are not separate, not alone, not lonely, not vulnerable in the same way as those of us stranded in the islands of ourselves, but they are vulnerable in other ways. Still, that sense of the dangers of feeling for others is so compelling that many withdraw, and develop elaborate stories to justify withdrawal, and then forget that they have shrunk. Most of us do, one way or another."
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"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members."
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"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."
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"Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?"
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"Hear others, and you will be heard. Understand others, and you will be understood. Help others, and you be will be helped. Love others, and you will be loved."
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"Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods."
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"Instead of dwelling on that pain within, reach out to someone else's pain."
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"If your pain is the same like somebody else, I think that this will be the best couple it will be."
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"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
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"With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it."
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"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them."
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"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion."
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"Compassion is the highest form of love. Kindness is the best way to express love."
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"To carry each other's burdens, we must care for one another."
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"I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then to convince myself that those traumas could be balanced - and their effects reversed - by sufficient acts of kindness."
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"It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers."
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"Dear God, let me find calm in every situation. Let me look at others with pity instead of anger. Let me pray they make it through life's fog they've created for themselves and find you. In Jesus's name, amen."
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"We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences."
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"Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained."
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"Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering."
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"When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything."
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"I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost."
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"To extend compassion to a so-called villain, to forgive those who have wronged you, and to find common ground with someone who has been awfully isolated are not acts typically met with fireworks and swelling violins. More often than not, they are pushed away. To love, really love, is to do them anyway."
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"No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."
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"Compassion will lead you to extraordinary worlds your fear doesn't dare visit."
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"Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice."
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"When we can see our own self, angry and hurting others, within every villain, then we can love. When we can see our own desperate struggle for belonging in the eyes of every enemy, then we can love. When we can look at the greatest of atrocities and see the opportunity for healing within, then, and only then, can we really love."
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"If you can love one person, you can love everyone."
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"To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within."
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"If you want a great life try being kind."
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"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation."
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"In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms."
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"I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment."
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"Compassion is contempt with a human face."
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"It's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds."
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"Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong."
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"Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim."
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"Be the compassionate observer. No labels, just unconditional compassion. Fun times pass, tough times pass. Compassion will be eternal."
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"When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate."
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"You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people."
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"It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man."
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"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."
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"If you want to share then share the spirit of love, unity and humanity."
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"To love one's neighbors to love one's enemies to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love."
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