Compassion Quotes - Page 27

• Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Clubs, Tribes

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• A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Church, Goes On

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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• God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Father, People, Glory

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• If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

  William Penn

  May, Ends, Considering

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Attachment, Issues

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• If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'.

  Patch Adams

  Doctors, Cures, Percentages

  Real Patch Adams says jokes aid practical medicine, www.cnn.com. January 11, 1999.

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• No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

  Michael Novak

  Children, Progress, Principles

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• Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

  William Cowper

  Tempest, Lost, Blast

  William Cowper (1866). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.405

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• But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Believe, People

  "Carter: 'At stake is nothing less than our nation's soul'". edition.cnn.com. July 27, 2004.

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• So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

  Catherine Marshall

  Success, Understanding, Privilege

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• From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Sea, Shining, Effort

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• Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sacrifice, Desire, Study

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• Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Drinking, Vices, Meat

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• If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Peace Love, Love And Compassion, Ifs

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• The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar?s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Children, Heart, Boys

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• God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Humility, Grace, Watches

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• Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sacrifice, Study, Fortitude

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• For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Work, Humanity, Progress

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• We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values - looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous... It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dream, Successful, Men

  "Madonna's Twisted Values" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. April 24, 2003.

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• We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

  George Soros

  Community, Forgiving, Suffering

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• A state has the right to prohibit the killing of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Dog, Bears, Purpose

  Alan M. Dershowitz (2011). “The Best Defense”, p.166, Vintage

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• I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.

  Cary Elwes

  Mother, Blessed, Character

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• It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning.

  Steve King

  Responsibility, People, Records

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• I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.

  Loretta Young

  Prayer, Father, Believe

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• I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Wind, Jail

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