Compassion Quotes - Page 20

• There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Groups, Needs

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• She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.

  Pat Conroy

  People, Drug, Soul

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• In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.

  John Speed

  Fire, Soul, Islam

  John Speed (2007). “The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.

  H. David Burton

  Running, Children, Honesty

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• Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Mean, Ubuntu

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

  Teresa of Avila

  Eye, Hands, Feet

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• Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wall, Kindness, Heart

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• The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Mean, Understanding

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• What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Oneness, Silence, Desire

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• Online we have a compassion deficit

  Monica Lewinsky

  Online, Deficit

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• When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish to find a cup. In a similar way, the main wish of those who have great compassion is to protect all living beings from their suffering, but to fulfill this wish they know they must first attain Buddhahood themselves and so they naturally develop the secondary wish to attain enlightenment.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Tea, Suffering, Wish

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• As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Practice, Meditation, Ease

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Apr 03, 2013

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• Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

  Joan Halifax

  Wish, May, Capacity

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• As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.

  U Thant

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Humility

  Thant (U) (1978). “View from the UN”, Doubleday Books

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• Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Reflection, Opportunity, Self

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• The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

  Mencius

  Two, Want, Way

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• Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Prayer, Silence, Doers

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.11, Arktos

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• Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.

  Roger Caras

  Horse, Hunters, Would Be

  Roger A. Caras (1971). “Death as a Way of Life”

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• "Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

  Brigid Brophy

  People, Abuse, Sentimental

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• A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life.

  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

  Block, Illumination, Imagination

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• Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Love Is, Energy, Grows

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from May 14, 2013

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• Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Mistake, Ignorance

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• In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

  Mark Foley

  School, Discipline, Catholic

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• So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.

  James Michael

  Weed, Kindness, Hate

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• Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

  Biz Stone

  Animal, Wife, My Wife

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