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Compassion Quotes
"Wherever you go in the next catastrophe,
Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemetery,
Do not fear that your stay will be solitary;
Countless souls share your fate,
you'll have company!"
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"By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined."
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"And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me."
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"You benefit when you do not further entangle (confuse) an already entangled person or you benefit when you remove his entanglement. But what happens when you entangle the one who is already entangled? God is sitting within him, isn't he?"
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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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"See and live life for the wonderful gift that it is ...acknowledging everyone's beauty, flaws, frailty, strength, gifts and possibilities. Honour and cherish it and above be loving and compassionate. Here is the birthplace of inner and worldly peace."
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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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"Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world."
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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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"It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her."
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"Such a number of nights,' said the girl, with a touch of woman's tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; 'such a number of nights as I've been patient with you, nursing and caring for you, as if you had been a child: and this the first that I've seen you like yourself; you wouldn't have served me as you did just now, if you'd thought of that, would you? Come, come; say you wouldn't."
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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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"Practice self-compassion and experience the priceless feeling of emotional safety."
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"As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction."
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"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
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"Recognizing that God exists in all of us is the first step toward genuine kindness."
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"The beauty of compassion is free, and everyone is welcome to it."
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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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"You can have a pet zebra and put that zebra into a small cage every day and tell the zebra that you love it, but no matter how you and the zebra love each other, the fact remains, that the zebra should be let out of that cage and should belong to someone who can treat it better, the way it should be treated, someone who can make it happy."
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"Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it."
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"The fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion."
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"The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others."
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"Caring is what matters, not stuff or status, just people sharing kindness & joy in a web of the heart that spans the globe."
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"Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else-fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness."
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"Zarathustra answered: "I love mankind."
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"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."
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"There's something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good."
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"Compassion is given freely with no expectation of reward."
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"In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue."
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"The great soul understands the small-minded."
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"There is a lot of unhappiness in this world. Try not to feed it."
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"You may wonder why so many of my quotes - and all my work - is about love, compassion and inner peace? Because life is nothing, empty, bereft without these things."
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"The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens."
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"You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it."
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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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"It is certain that if there is someone to hurt you on one side, there is also someone to help you on the other side. Just as you cannot see the one that hurts you, you also cannot see the one that helps you. If the one that hurts you cannot last more than four or five years, neither will the one that helps you."
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"Oliver has long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings to those about him, though they do in the feelings of a great many people. He was still the same gentle, attached, affectionate creature that he had been when pain and suffering had wasted his strength; and when he was dependent for every slight attention and comfort on those who tended him."
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"How often do we listen and act to the call of honesty, serenity, humility and generosity?How many "soft pillows" do we use for a life time?If only everyone uses a "soft pillow," then what a better world it could be to have many genuine hearts."
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"Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness."
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"I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God."
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"It's easy to rebuke each other's opinions, but can we honor each other's pain? Can we make the effort to see beyond the portraits we've painted of one another, and to connect to the humanity that thrives beneath our own assumptions? Can we be relentless in our desire to tear down walls, and to build bridges? Can we be brave and stay committed to the conversations that need to be had?The only thing I know about these questions is that I need to replace the we with I, and begin to answer them from there.One thing I know for sure: I want to become the example I wish to see in others. That's a good place to start.Another thing I know for sure: I love you. You're beautiful. You rock."
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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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"Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike."
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"Our compassion, spirituality, and appreciation of beauty provide us with the capacity to love."
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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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"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
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