Compassion Quotes - Page 33

• Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

  Olivia Wilde

  People, Weakness, Feels

  "Olivia Wilde: 'Divorce made me a better actress'". www.today.com. July 13, 2011.

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• The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Rain, Fall, Sea

  Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”

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• Taylor Swift's dedication to advocacy at such a young age continues to inspire me, and I'm delighted to honor her as one of our 2012 Ripple of Hope Award recipients. [...] and especially the compassion she's shown as a proud defender against bullying and LGBTI discrimination. [...] As a young person, Taylor has already accomplished so much, and I look forward to watching all that she will do to help build a brighter, more peaceful world for us all.

  Kerry Kennedy

  Bullying, Dedication, Awards

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• Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems.

  Grace Kelly

  Thinking, People, Problem

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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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• 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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• Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did I get in trouble for it, I got suspended for doing it. For saving the snails I kept about four or five hundred of them at the back of the class -- in Snail Land. We were like six or seven or something, people didn't even realise what they were doing. I had a strange compassion for snails. And the teacher just chucked them all in the trash in the end.

  Robert Pattinson

  Teacher, School, Land

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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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• 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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• I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.

  John Legend

  Song, Prayer, Live Life

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• A good leader leads with compassion and love, not fear and blood. A country that harms its people because they are not happy with the leader -- is not a country that belongs to the people, but to the leader.

  Suzy Kassem

  Country, Blood, People

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

  Jay-Z

  Live Life

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• The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Essence, Justice, Religion

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• [T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Church charities lose their mission when the government provides food, shelter and income to the poor. And the non-poor no longer feel pressed to provide aid to those in need, be they aged parents or their unfortunate neighbors-"compassion" having become the province of the state.

  Mona Charen

  Children, Father, Government

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• We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.

  Glenn L. Pace

  Needs, Charity, Spontaneous

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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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• It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who saw the prodigal son while he was at a distance, and had compassion and ran and embraced him.

  Tito Colliander

  Distance, Son, Saws

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.60, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.

  Chico Xavier

  Trouble, Prisoner, Fanatics

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• With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Powerful, Disappointment, Land

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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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• The signs of good health are an intellect which is free from inhibition and arrogance, a heart which is full of compassion is healthy, a confusion-free mind, a trauma-free memory and a sorrow-free soul.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Memories, Heart, Confusion

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• It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Powerful, Reality

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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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