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Compassion Quotes
"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members."
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
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"Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering."
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"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."
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"Compassion is the highest form of love. Kindness is the best way to express love."
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"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
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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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"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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"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."
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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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"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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"Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence."
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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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"First partakers of love are always enveloped with the real intention."
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"Instead of dwelling on that pain within, reach out to someone else's pain."
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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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"Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling."
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"If you can love one person, you can love everyone."
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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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"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed."
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"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
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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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"When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful."
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"Kindness has no boundaries. It is the language of the soul."
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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
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"The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world."
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"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion."
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"Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion."
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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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"I was just thinking... how it is not and it will never be okay to cause pain in someone's life just because of the fact that you are envious of them! Is someone taller than you? Richer than you? More beautiful? That doesn't make it okay to hurt those people, for all you know, they bear deep wounds and carry heavy burdens and their heartache is far greater than anything you could ever bear! People try to hurt people that they're envious of, without knowing that they are adding to what is already painful. And because someone has more than you or has what it is that you want, doesn't mean that they owe you anything! It's not their fault! Be careful, you may just be wounding an angel soul, and a wound inflicted upon an angel soul, will always, always come back to haunt- YOU."
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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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"If you can find a cause that touches your soul it will make you a better person, it will show you the power of helping others and ultimately the biggest winner is us. Giving to others helps us to grow, to have a different outlook in life, to appreciate what we have and to be more positive."
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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 even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it."
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"Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the compassionate?Woe to all lovers who cannot surmount pity!Thus spoke the Devil to me once: Even God has his Hell: it is his love for man.And I lately heard him say these words: God is dead; God has died of his pity for man."
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"Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class."
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"Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself."
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"Compassion will lead you to extraordinary worlds your fear doesn't dare visit."
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"What happened? she asked, dropping to the damp ground beside Win. "Has Merripen been burned? "Yes, on his back. Win ripped a makeshift bandage from the hem of her own gown. "Beatrix, would you take this, please, and soak it in water? Without a word, Beatrix scampered to the trough at the handpump. Win stroked Merripen's thick black hair as he rested his head on his forearms. His breath hissed unevenly through his teeth. "Does it hurt, or is it numb? Amelia asked. "Hurts like the devil, he choked out. "That's a good sign. A burn is much more serious if it's numb. He turned his head to give her a speaking glance."
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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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"Compassion is the magic ingredient to an amazing life."
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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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"Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong."
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