Compassion Quotes - Page 36

• in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.

  Dorothea Dix

  Want, Cold, Conviction

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• Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

  Starhawk

  Punishment, Quality, Weakness

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• Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.

  J. Martin Klotsche

  Hate, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• To all those who say they believe in God, please realize with faith that God hears every word you say. God hears your every thought. Realizing this, speak only what is truth and act only with God's qualities of love, compassion, justice, patience, and the realization that each life is as important as your own.

  Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

  Believe, Justice, Important

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• Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.

  Irene Hunt

  Children, Integrity, Needs

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• In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Exercise, Feel Good, Feelings

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• I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

  Dan Chaon

  Character, Dark, Long

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• We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

  Ian Somerhalder

  People, Progress, Ifs

  "5 Ways Ian Somerhalder Has Taught Me to Live Life" by Dina Khayal, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2013.

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• It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly.

  Joan Blondell

  Men, Thinking, Joy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Journalists love to show their compassion.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Shows, Journalist

  "Media Unfair to Michael J. Fox And Rush Limbaugh?". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2006.

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• Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer.

  David Hawkins

  Healing, May, Healed

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• the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

  Anne Truitt

  Failure, Honest, Invaluable

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• High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

  Marietta Holley

  Blessed, Long, Tree

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• Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.

  Douglas Pagels

  Distance, Lying, Views

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• You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.

  Jan Phillips

  Christian, Real, Feet

  "Republicans and the Christian Vote" by Jan Phillips, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februuary 19, 2012.

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• Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

  Masiela Lusha

  Would Be, Better Person, Strive

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• If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.

  African Spir

  Acting, Selfishness, Alive

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.

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• Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit.

  African Spir

  Selfish, Men, Ideas

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.

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• your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved; they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another. ... decency and integrity, courage and compassion, are always well worth while; they are not lost, but pass on down the generations; we are indeed the heirs of all the ages.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Integrity, Age, Generations

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• If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed.

  Maria Theresa

  Wish, Earth, Immortality

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• As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word.

  Floyd McClung

  Humility, Giving, Demonstration

  Floyd McClung (2004). “The Father Heart of God”, p.96, Harvest House Publishers

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• We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

  David R. Brower

  Earth, May, Pauses

  David Ross Brower, John R. McGuire, Thomas L. Kimball (1981). “Wildlife: The Real Test of Environmental Quality”

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• I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.

  Kevin Bacon

  Jobs, Men, Shoes

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• Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

  Dylan McDermott

  Helping, Distraction, Embrace

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• All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

  Bill Vaughan

  Spiritual, Children, Disease

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