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Compassion Quotes
"If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands."
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"Your suffering is here to help you unfold and to awaken into compassion, love and strength."
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"Look at every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!"
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"When you love God for real, you will love His creation."
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"Be kind enough to love those who don't deserve your love."
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"It is important to give, not only to those closer to us, also to our enemies."
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"I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it."
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"Love is black. Love is white. Love is brown. Love is humanity."
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"Be an asset in the lives of others. Put people before things and live from your heart."
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"Compassion is not a sometime action, it's an every time passion! You can't be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week... That's first class hypocrisy!"
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"It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend."
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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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"Be compassionate and kind to yourself and everyone around you."
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"Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?"
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"When we harm others we harm ourselves, when we help others we help ourselves."
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"Unnecessary violence against animals is a heinous crime. Be a voice for those who do not have one."
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"A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and 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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"We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on."
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"There is no religion better than love, no color better than the color of happiness and no language better than the language of compassion."
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"As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction."
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"Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circumstance could change and you may need it."
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"I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious."
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"Provide a safe place for people to be their 100% self, this world is already guarded and fearful, trained to keep walls up and throw away the keys. A harden heart is no pure reality and for too long, we have all stood to allow it; so instead of excusing mimisfortune, let's bathe eachother in compassion and grow beyond what we've been taught."
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"Smile, even when others do not. Care, even when others will not. Love, even when others could not. Give, even when others cannot."
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"Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage."
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"Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves. We can open to everything with the healing force of love. When we feel love, our mind is expansive and open enough to include the entirety of life in full awareness, both its pleasures and its pains, we feel neither betrayed by pain or overcome by it, and thus we can contact that which is undamaged within us regardless of the situation. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be."
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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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"As if you are their mother, be kind to others."
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"Show your compassion to people in their life time, no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are lowered!"
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"We all have the ability to make someone's life better with our love."
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"No matter what we think we should do, I don't think you can coerce yourself into loving your neighbor-or your boss-when you can't stand him. But if you try to understand your feelings of dislike with mindfulness and compassion, being sure not to forget self-compassion, you create the possibility for change."
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"Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others."
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"Compassion grows in the recognition that we are all the same.If you can't see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you're not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself."
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"Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his countenance, beautiful with a man's best beauty, even in its depression. When I placed his chair at the table, which I hastened to do, anticipating the servant, and when I handed him his tea, which I did with trembling care, he said: "Thank you, Lucy," in as kindly a tone of his full pleasant voice as ever my ear welcomed."
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"Whatever you dobe gentle with yourself.you don't just livein this worldor your homeor your skin.you also livein someone's eyes."
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"We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity-with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies."
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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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"If I really care for you, if I try to think myself into your position and orientation, then the world is bettered by my effort at understanding and comprehension. If you respond to my effort by trying to extend the same sympathy and understanding to others in turn, then the betterment of the world has been minutely but significantly extended. We want people to feel with us, more than to act for us."
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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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"Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind."
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"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."
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"Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness."
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"If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me."
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"We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior."
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"Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt."
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"Our sacrosanct obligation is to tend to our own personal wounds and furiously love the entire world irrespective if the world loves us back."
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"She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing."
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