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Compassion Quotes
"Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim."
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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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"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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"If you want to share then share the spirit of love, unity and humanity."
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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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"If you want a great life try being kind."
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"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
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"Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion."
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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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"Compassion is that special ingredient that is often missed, and it makes a difference in building a positive environment."
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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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"Jesus showed compassion for the hurting and the lost, and so should you."
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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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"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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"Kindness has no boundaries. It is the language of the soul."
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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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"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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"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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"What would it hurt for me to give that homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up for him from the harder stuff that knocked him onto the streets in the first place. Maybe, just maybe, he's actually going to spend it on food (homeless people do eat, right?). Maybe, he really is a desperate human being who is trying to change his situation."
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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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"Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back."
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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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"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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"Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good."
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"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt."
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"First partakers of love are always enveloped with the real intention."
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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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"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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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
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"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."
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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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"Are you able to remain humble and kind when things do not go the way you want or expect? Be kind when you are in pain; be kind even when your life seems to be falling apart around you. Be humble not only when you succeed but also when you fail. Kindness in word and action, and humble in thought and belief. It is important to not only say and do the 'right' thing, it is important to also think and believe it - which is being genuine in nature of peace embodiment."
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"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
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"Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture."
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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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"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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"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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"People who suffer the most often inflict the most pain onto others. Compassion can be found through understanding this. When someone is internally suffering, sometimes the only reality they know is that of pain and thus their only knowledge is how to be a victim or an abuser. That's all they are able to communicate. Holding onto the thorn of resentment does not help them or you, but fostering compassion and forgiveness will."
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"No matter who it is or what you think of them, never rejoice in the pain of others. It lowers you to a level you should not be at."
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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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"In your heart there's a way around the criticizers, minimizes, and judgmental people that hurt you. When it's understood their self-confidence is very low. It's then you can pray for them, that they find peace, and allow all righteousness to come from Jesus Christ. Amen."
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"When you judge someone you have no time to love them."
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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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"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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