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Compassion Quotes
"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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"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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"Riley : "Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on."Mercy: "Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies."
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"I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility."
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"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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"Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek."
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"Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes."
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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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"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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"Be an asset in the lives of others. Put people before things and live from your heart."
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"I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story."
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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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"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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"Sometomes that's all people ever really need. Just to know."
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"No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day."
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"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
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"Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them."
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"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."
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"You are the very creator and co-creator of your own reality. When you allow yourself to remember what you already know about yourself on the spirit level, you shine the light of unconditional love, compassion and understanding. You become more of who you truly are, when you choose compassion and kindness. It must start from being kind to yourself."
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"It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you."
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"Compassion is essential, but it's not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them."
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"Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one."
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"Be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief."
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"People care about animals. I believe that. They just don't want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It's wrong. They're packed body to body, and can't escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It's wrong. They feel their slaughters. It's wrong, and people know it's wrong. They don't have to be convinced. They just have to act differently. I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own."
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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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"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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"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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"I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren."
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"A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself."
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"No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!"
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"The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable."
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"Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions."
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"The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you'll ever have to find fault or be better than others. And the less we all find fault or have a need to be better than others, the quicker this world becomes a far better place to live."
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"Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed."
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"The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness."
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"Do ACTS of MERCY in a BIG WAY."
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"Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually."
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"Maybe magic wasn't the magic thing, when you grew up with it."
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"How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin - scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car."
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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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"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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"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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"Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness."
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"On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural."
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