Compassion Quotes - Page 17

• There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Light, Generosity, Grace

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• Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Giving Up, Struggle, Exercise

  Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky (2013). “Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading”, p.119, Harvard Business Press

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• When I am in Tibet, I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. The Dalai Lama's holiness generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.

  Richard Gere

  Light, Self, Holiness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Thanksgiving Q&A: Shannon Elizabeth’s New Tradition — Adopt A Turkey!". Interview with Christopher Locke, www.accesshollywood.com. November 21, 2012.

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• One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that it will continue. We must have the strength to face it without turning away. By opening to the pain we see around us with wisdom and compassion, we start to experience the intimate connection of our relationship with all beings.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Mind, Suffering

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• It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  Religious, Expression, Hatred

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• As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Kindness, Self

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group

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• Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

  Brian Blessed

  Kindness, Wish, Creatures

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• When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

  Dalai Lama

  Self, Benefits, Our Actions

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• Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Fields, Bigs

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.204, Open Road Media

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• On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.

  Starhawk

  Hate, Women, Generosity

  "Toward an Activist Spirituality" by Starhawk, October 2003.

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• How could I be out there and not do anything?

  Jay-Z

  Live Life

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• The Democrats want illegal mirgation not they are humanitarian. This is not about compassion. This is not about love and a soft spot for people from these horrible places and wanting to give them a better life. This is about registering a bunch of future Democrat voters that are never gonna be able to fend or provide for themselves. This is about flooding this country with people who are going to be forever dependent on a government-run by Democrats.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, People, Giving

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• Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

  Lucinda Williams

  Want, Bad Manners, Ifs

  Song: Compassion, 2014

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• God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Giving, Sick

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required it is this: fearlessness in your examination of life and death; Willingness to continually grow; and openness to the possibility that the ordinary is extraordinary, and that your joys and your sorrows have meaning and mystery

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Generosity, Life And Death, Joy

  Elizabeth Lesser (1999). “The New American Spirituality: A Seeker's Guide”, Random House Incorporated

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• The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life!

  Pope John Paul II

  Struggle, Long, Challenges

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love”, p.120, Loyola Press

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• Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love, or compassion.' But this belies a belief in what most others acknowledge, namely, that Christ was the perfect manifestation of the virtue of love.

  Norman Geisler

  Christian, Jesus, Character

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• I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that I might find a hidden source of love and compassion. Like a homing instinct for freedom, my intuitive sense that this was possible was the faint, flickering, yet undeniable expression of faith.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Heart, Greatness

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.18, Penguin

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• Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

  J. D. Greear

  Praying, Resurrection, Lord

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• Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor; anger by goodwill and love for all men; worldly dejection by spiritual joy; listlessness by patience, perseverance and offering thanks to God; self-esteem by doing good in secret and by praying constantly with a contrite heart; and pride by not judging or despising anyone in the manner of the boastful Pharisee (cf. Lk. 18:11-12), and by considering oneself the least of all men.

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Spiritual, Perseverance

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• We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

  Pema Chodron

  Loneliness, Punishment, Heartache

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Self, Action

  "The Impossible Question". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1972.

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• Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Lying, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.24, Random House

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• Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Practice, Needs

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