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Compassion Quotes
"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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"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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"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt."
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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 is that special ingredient that is often missed, and it makes a difference in building a positive environment."
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"I don't call it "Life Insurance," I call it "Love Insurance." We buy it because we want to leave a legacy for those we love."
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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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"Jesus showed compassion for the hurting and the lost, and so should you."
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"Women are so caring, kindhearted and soft creatures; I wonder how one could harm or hurt them for any reason."
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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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"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation."
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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
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"Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim."
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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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"Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth."
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"Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself."
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"The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out."
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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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"If you can only do one thing today, choose to help someone in need. There are many who are less fortunate. Take some time to lend a helping hand. You will be surprised by how much you will uplift their spirit."
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"Kindness has no boundaries. It is the language of the soul."
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"Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good."
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"There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion."
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"I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need."
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"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."
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"The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings-and sometimes, that has to be at a distance."
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"Compassion is the magic ingredient to an amazing life."
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"No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience."
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"If you want to share then share the spirit of love, unity and humanity."
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"If you want a great life try being kind."
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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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"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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"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."
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"Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall."
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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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"There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one..."
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"Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship."
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"There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all."
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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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"All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others."
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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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"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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"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten."
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"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar, it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
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"We have to bring the humanity and compassion back."
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