Compassion Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mind, Ordinary, Way

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2000). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.227, Tharpa Publications UK

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• May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

  Rumi

  Love, Sweet, Laughter

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• We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.

  Glenn L. Pace

  Needs, Charity, Spontaneous

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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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• The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Son, Joy

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• Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

  Sharon Stone

  Kindness, Thinking, Sitting

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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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• If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

  Pocahontas

  Films And Movies, Stranger, Walks

  Song: Colors Of The Wind

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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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• 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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• 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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• If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Heart, Buddhism

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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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• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  Sam Kinison

  People, Disease, Aids

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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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• Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Art

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• Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Suffering, Able, Faces

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• There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there be first justice enjoyed by all the inhabitants of that beautiful land. The Bible knows nothing about peace without justice, for that would be crying "peace, peace, where there is no peace". God's Shalom, peace, involves inevitably righteousness, justice, wholeness, fullness of life, participation in decision-making, goodness, laughter, joy, compassion, sharing and reconciliation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Laughter, Real

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Reflection, Opportunity, Self

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• Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Nice, Want, Lawyer

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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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• Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.

  Somaly Mam

  Forgiveness, Love Is, Together We Can

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