Compassion Quotes - Page 29

• If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.

  Gelek Rimpoche

  Running, Practice, Risk

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• All those who slight me to my face,
  Or do me any other evil,
  Even if they blame or slander me,
  May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!

  Shantideva

  Evil, Enlightenment, May

  Shantideva, Padmakara Translation Group (2008). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• Each of is an arm of Kannon, enabling Kannon to do her work. Like her, we're also overwhelmed, but when we reallize that the millions of pieces are all operating as one, then there's no problem. The reason we get overwhelmed is that we're attached to a certain result or taht we want to achieve a certain result or that we to achieve a certain goal. If we weren't attached we wouldn't be overwhelmed. It's endless. And we just take one step after the next

  Bernie Glassman

  Goal, Pieces, Enabling

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• Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
  A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students;
  Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
  Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism;
  And to some he teaches the profound,
  The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment,
  Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Essence, Practice, Profound

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• I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Order, Laughing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.72, Parallax Press

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• To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Mistake, Stupid

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• Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• Have compassion for your humanity and your flaws. You're human and you're going to make mistakes. Look at yourself through the eyes of a loving parent.

  Lauren Mackler

  Mistake, Eye, Parent

  Lauren Mackler (2009). “Solemate”, p.127, Hay House, Inc

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• Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

  Hsing Yun

  Kindness, Meditation, Dimensions

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• Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation.

  Elijah Cummings

  Struggle, Color, America

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• Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Pain, Lying, Vocabulary

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• A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

  David W. Orr

  Home, Creativity, Quality

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• All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.

  Anthony Douglas

  Dignity, Deserve

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• I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Morning, Sorry

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• I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

  Philip Yancey

  And Love, Mercy, Knows

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.80, Harper Collins

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• Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

  Patrik Baboumian

  Lying, Responsibility, Fate

  "Patrik Baboumian: My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion". www.riseofthevegan.com. January 12, 2016.

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• Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

  Mark Salzman

  Our World, Justice, Understanding

  Mark Salzman (2007). “True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall”, p.155, Vintage

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• If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Would Be, Situation, Response

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• Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;"Be thou whole," say openly:"I forgive thee all.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Jesus, Fall, Agony

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• A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Grief, Mind, Would Be

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• How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Believe, Charity, May

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• Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Work Out, Earth, Littles

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 1, p. 30, 1977.

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• The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.

  Robert Dodsley

  Fall, Heart, Rose

  Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1795). “The Œconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Manner in which the Said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman Now Residing in China to the Earl of E****..”, p.48

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• I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.

  Peter Hedges

  Views, People, Empathy

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• I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

  Ben Jonson

  Justice, Weakness, Vices

  1614 Bartholomew Fair, act 4, sc.2.

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