Compassion Quotes - Page 38

• Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Suffering, Different, Needs

  "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.

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• Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

  Steven Erikson

  Justice, Promise, Deceit

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• Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

  Laura Schlessinger

  People, Seems

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• Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.

  Allen West

  Brother, Choices, Definitions

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• Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Believe, Lasts, Scoundrels

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• I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Pain, Emotional

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• I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

  Hilary Liftin

  Real, Thinking, Fame

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.

  Phil Cousineau

  Pain, Moving, Healing

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• There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency.

  David Limbaugh

  Strong, War, Humility

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• Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter,  patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.

  Jody Watley

  Laughter, Prayer, Attitude

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• I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love; we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this - to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them.

  Franklin Graham

  Christian, Believe, People

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• Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

  Luanne Rice

  Writing, Conviction

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• When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

  Antonio Damasio

  Pain, Brain, Evolution

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• Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of capacious soul and formal inventiveness: the compassion and artfulness necessary to capture the tragedies and Tragedy of Katrina. Smith is herself a storm of beautiful, frightening talent. Her words will wash you or wash you away. I consider this new book a major literary event.

  Terrance Hayes

  Beautiful, Book, Blood

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• Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness

  Amit Abraham

  Understanding, Truthfulness

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• Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

  Todd Young

  Responsibility, Names, Safety

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• The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

  Henry Bonilla

  Cutting, Talking, Choices

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• We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need to show that we are more than red carpets, we are more than Hollywood, that we are a city ourselves of open arms. We are a city of generosity and compassion.

  Maria Shriver

  Angel, Cities, Names

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• In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion.

  Melanie Rae Thon

  Country, Children, Heart

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• Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

  Tom Rath

  Leader, Needs, Followers

  Tom Rath, Barry Conchie (2008). “Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.

  Will Tuttle

  Spiritual, Way, Transformation

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.380, Lantern Books

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• Compassion is never compassion until you cross the street and go do something about it.

  Christine Caine

  Crosses, Streets

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• As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  War, Sea, Suffering Of Others

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• This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

  Jackie Tabick

  Ideas, Made, God Image

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• What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Color, Years

  Speech the day after the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, April 5, 1968.

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