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Compassion Quotes
"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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"When you judge someone you have no time to love them."
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"Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering."
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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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"When you wish evil on your enemies, remember that you are also someone else's enemy. Matthew 5:44"
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"A person with good heart is always happy. However its a myth because most of the time his heart is full of wounds as it except only good thing from others still he love the people who treat it right & pray for the ones who don't."
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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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"You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever."
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"Let us do those things that our heart is asking us to do and from this day forth allow all souls that leave our presence feeling honored and deeply loved."
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"She had thought she'd already reached her capacity for pain and had no room inside her for more. But she remembered having told Archer once that you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upwards, and, just when you'd thought you'd reached your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of other people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that place with her."
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"When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace."She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this _is_ grace."
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"I can't hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated."
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"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."
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"Any other questions?'Just one,' I say. 'What color are your eyes?' I want to know what he thinks, how he sees himself - the real Ky - when he dares to look.'Blue,' he says sounding surprised, 'they've always been blue.'Not to me.'What do they look like to you?' he says puzzled, amused. Not looking at my mouth anymore, looking into my eyes.'Lots of colors,' I say. 'At first I thought they were brown. Once I thought they were green...'What are they now?' he asks. He widens his eyes a little, leans closer, lets me look as long and deep as I want.'Well?'Everything,' I tell him, 'They're everything."
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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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"In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behaviour must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus."
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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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"We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour."
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"Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps."
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"Kindness never use harsh words its touch warmth the needy person."
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"We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home."
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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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"The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love."
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"The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin of the other."
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"When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump - start a pro - change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes."
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"Understanding breeds empathy."
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"A heart has its multiple facets of daily music. Respect a genuine good heart."
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"A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt."
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"Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves."
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"If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, "I'm just going to love you through this."
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"It was the simplest of acts, the smallest of gestures, yet no one had taken the time to do something kind for her in a very long time. No one had made her feel special. Unbeknownst to her, a single, unfamiliar tear fell down her cheek as her worn and wounded body fell into a deep, safe slumber."
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"Forgiveness is not the act of doing nothing to the one who hurts you. It's easy to do nothing, but hard to forgive."
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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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"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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"He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she'd fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery."
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"If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less."
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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
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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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"It is hard to draw any line between compassion and love."
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"They wanted to help me with my pain."
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"I show up for my fellow man by sharing my inner wealth. I generously give out compassion and acceptance wherever I go."
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"How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can't."
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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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"We cannot become starched Christians, those overeducated Christians who speak of theological matters as they calmly sip their tea. No! We must become courageous Christians and go in search of the people who are the very flesh of Christ! ... This is the [issue]: the flesh of Christ, touching the flesh of Christ, taking upon ourselves this suffering for the poor."
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"William Burroughs was simultaneously old and young. Part sheriff, part gumshoe. All writer. He had a medicine chest he kept locked, but if you were in pain he would open it. He did not like to see his loved ones suffer. If you were infirm he would feed you. He'd appear at your door with a fish wrapped in newsprint and fry it up. He was inaccessible to a girl but I loved him anyway."
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"Wow,' Clay said. 'Never thought I'd see the day a woman walked away from you. And in the middle of a the desert.' He cracked up and pulled his cell phone from his pocket. 'I'm definitely tweeting this."
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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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"But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got."
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