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Compassion Quotes
"Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too."
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"Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient's mind, awaiting his awakening."
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"Every peak and valley of your life has led you to deeper understanding and, ultimately, growing compassion."
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"By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too."
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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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"I'm concerned about myself, but I'm less concerned about 'only myself'."
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"Cherish all. Depend on few. Hurt none. Love everyone."
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"Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace."
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"Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents. Later on in life, when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since we are dependent on the kindness of others at the beginning and end of our lives, then how can we neglect projecting kindness towards others in the middle of our lives, when it is our best time to share it?"
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"Love is black. Love is white. Love is brown. Love is humanity."
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"Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him."Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all."
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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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"And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for the health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance company was about to stop paying for her care.I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of his. And when he spoke to the crowd listening to that father's story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes, because we knew that little girl could be our own."
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"Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas- he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him."
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"As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction."
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"Recognizing that God exists in all of us is the first step toward genuine kindness."
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"We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that our brethren experience."
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"In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue."
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"It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts."
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"Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light."
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"Once you understand love, you don't need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don't need a reward for breathing."
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"If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labour."
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"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
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"You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not."
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"Try to show grace, mercy and compassion, for one day you may need them."
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"As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead.The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and affection he had never known; as a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or even the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes call up sudden dim remembrances of scenes that never were, in this life; which vanish like a breath; and which some brief memory of a happier existence, long gone by, would seem to have awakened, for no voluntary exertion of the mind can ever recall them."
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"A woman who truly loves herself better loves others."
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"The kindness that we receive from others in life, is also the kindness that we will want to give. The harshness that we receive from others in life, will also be the harshness that we will give. But true strength lies in seeing the harshness that we have received in life; and living in such a way so that that others will never feel the same from us."
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"There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."
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"Love can extend far beyond the people whom we know and it makes us a part of something much greater than ourselves."
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"For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."
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"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."
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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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"He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me."
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"But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?"
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"Compassion is born out of lovingkindness.It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they are."
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"Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root."
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"In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life."
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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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"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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"A gracious soul is kind hearted."
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"Can I say hello?Why?I don't want you to be alone!"
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"Be kind, for the other is not another, but your mirrored kine."
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"I call him religious who understands the suffering of others."
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"Give me a few minutes,' he said, sounding tired but happy, 'before I make good on my promises.'She circled his nipple with her finger. 'That's a pretty short recovery time.'You inspire me."
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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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"They are les misA©rables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?"
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