Compassion Quotes - Page 24

• The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wisdom, Joy, One Day

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• The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Heart

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.725, Library of America

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• Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Honesty, Integrity, Real

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• If we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Heart, Suffering

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “May Peace And Happiness Prevail: Barcelona Speech”, p.28, M A Center

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• Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out if we kick the beggar at the door, where is our devotion? Compassion towards the poor is our duty to God. Mother is not saying that we should give money to every beggar that sits in front of a temple, but do not despise them. Pray for them as well. When we hate others, it is our own mind that becomes impure. Equality of vision is God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack of love and compassion. Of these two, the second type needs to be considered first because if we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Heart, Two, People

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• In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Kindness, Grief, Light

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• Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Practice, Effort, Meditation

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2014

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• Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Food, Humility

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• We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  School, Kids, Lessons

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2014

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• I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws in order to protect their fortunes. I also know they have no compassion for the masses of the people in this country who are without money and who are, many of them, without food or houses. I have always thought that only as a Democrat, reflecting Jefferson and Jackson, could justice ever be done the people because, at this moment in history, ours is the only party which is even faintly responsive to the force of ideas.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  Country, Real, Party

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• Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

  Camille Paglia

  Intelligent, Order, Law

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.7, Vintage

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• The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.

  Thom Hartmann

  Powerful, People, Doe

  Thom Hartmann (1997). “The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life”

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• It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

  Terry Eagleton

  Sympathy, Lying, Writing

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

  Christy Turlington

  Yoga, Mean, Generosity

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• Why does God endow us with compassion?

  Franz Schubert

  Doe

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• Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

  James Belushi

  Rip, Loss, Fire

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• In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

  Michael C. Burgess

  People, Evil, Borders

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• Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

  Artur Davis

  Government, Sound, Doe

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• We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

  Dave Davies

  Issues, Leader, Understanding

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• I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Understanding

  "No ordinary Joe" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.

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• I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

  Joe Arpaio

  Law, People

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• Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

  Karen Armstrong

  Sorry, Mean, People

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• It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

  Edwin McCain

  Fashion, Art, Media

  Song: Beautiful Life, Album: Messenger, 1999

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• Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Church, Needs

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.207, Three Rivers Press

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