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Compassion Quotes
"Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred."
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"When we're inspired by the desire to practice and transform our suffering, the mind of the moment is very beautiful. Sometimes we call it the mind of love. It's because of love that we practice."
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"Compassion brings us closer to each other."
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"One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself."
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"The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being."
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"Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!"
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"He's better now, Loo. He's taking care of the cats."
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"Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt."
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"When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away."
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"Without love we all like birds with broken wings."
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"She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small adn fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her."
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"We must never laugh at the struggle of another, even when it is something that we find to be easy and that we have not struggled with. Because we all have our own individual battles that we all need to work as hard at. Another's struggle might be easy for you; but stop to think about yours. Is your battle easy? Or was it? No, it wasn't, it isn't. Well the other person's isn't easy, either. And I think this alone means we all need to give one another a beautiful kind of respect."
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"If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care."
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"Please hold onto your kindess, we share the world with many selfish beings And we need open hearts to create change."
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"There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel."
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"Your suffering needs to be respected."
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"Be kind to him who does not deserve your kindness."
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"Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one."
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"Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?"
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"It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble."
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"When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire."
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"Love is black. Love is white. Love is brown. Love is humanity."
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"Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return."
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"May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human."
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"The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation."
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"Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor."
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"Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love."
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"When in doubt, give it out. Regardless of what is happening in your life, there is always someone else worse off that needs your help."
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"Do ACTS of MERCY in a BIG WAY."
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"I believe in giving kindness, regardless of how unreasonable and self-centered a person is. Kindness is a gift of sanctity for a person. It has the goal of making the soul smile."
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"Although we are urged to walk in another man's shoes, I think, first, we have to walk in another pair of our own shoes. Doing that will free up a lot, including our ability to be more compassionate and less judgmental."
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"Any fool can break something, criticise someone and tear things apart. It takes a far more skilled, wise and kind soul to build something, nurture someone, fix things and help others thrive over time."
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"If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins."
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"A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy."
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"When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves."
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"Sometimes all we need is a hug that will make us feel home. The heartbeats that sound like a lullaby and the eyes which assure us that the world is not such a bad a place yet every time we stare into them."
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"Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion."
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"Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor."
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"Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us."
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"It's a privilege to love someone, to truly love them; and while it's paradisaical if she or he loves you back, it's unfair to demand or expect reciprocity. We should consider ourselves luck, honored, blessed that we possess the capacity to feel tenderness of such magnitude and be grateful even when that love is not returned. Love is the only game in which we win even when we lose."
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"It is love, has been love, will always be love that makes the biggest difference in our world."
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"Poor means when we lack things in our lives. There are two types of poverty. ...those that need food and shelter and those that need God in their lives. We are called to service to help both group of people as much as we can."
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"Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human."
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"To demonstrate the deeds of the kingdom is to love and understand the deeds."
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"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
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"They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much."
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"Do not scream, when a child breaks a glass, only touch the shoulder, and say gracious words; do not worry!"
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"A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up."
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