Compassion Quotes - Page 40

• Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

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• So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

  Catherine Marshall

  Success, Understanding, Privilege

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• When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.

  Frank Laubach

  Jesus, Determination, Children

  Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”

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• Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Drinking, Vices, Meat

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• God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Humility, Grace, Watches

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• Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sacrifice, Study, Fortitude

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• For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Work, Humanity, Progress

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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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• A state has the right to prohibit the killing of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Dog, Bears, Purpose

  Alan M. Dershowitz (2011). “The Best Defense”, p.166, Vintage

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• It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning.

  Steve King

  Responsibility, People, Records

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• I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.

  Loretta Young

  Prayer, Father, Believe

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• I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Wind, Jail

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• No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

  Andrew Natsios

  Effort, Brotherhood, Usaid

  "Foley remembered for 'compassion'" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2002.

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• We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

  Francis Collins

  Cancer, Bears, Problem

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• A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by describing how heart-stricken she'd felt when, earlier that day, she'd seen a man in the street beating a mangy stray dog with a stick. "Compassion," the Dalai Lama told her, "is when you feel as sorry for the man as you do for the dog."

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dog, Sorry, Heart

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• A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Children, Government, People

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

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• Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

  Sherrod Brown

  Children, Cutting, Elderly

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• Only kindness matters. We are God's hands.

  Jewel

  Kindness, Hands, Matter

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• The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same; no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another.

  John Muir

  Brother, Men, Rights

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.43, Great West Books

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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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• If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Matter, Mercy, Ifs

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• From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Sea, Shining, Effort

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• A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Men, Self

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• The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

  Richard Davidson

  Kindness, Technology, Tools

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