Compassionate Quotes

• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

  Wendy Mass

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  "The Candymakers (The Candymakers, Book 1)". Book by Wendy Mass, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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  The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Business, Buddhism

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• Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

  Bea Arthur

  Fighting, Animal, Choices

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• True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Compassion

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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• A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Fire, Community, Scope

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• Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

  Pema Chodron

  Compassion, Working With Others, Action

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• To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Baby, People, Three

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

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• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

  Milan Kundera

  Pain, Compassion, Imagination

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops

  Geraldo Rivera

  War, Years, Iraq

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• The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kindness, Holiday, Opportunity

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• There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Laughing, Live In The Moment, Way To Live

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• The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

  George Stephanopoulos

  Selfish, Stupid, Intelligent

  George Stephanopoulos (1999). “All Too Human: A Political Education”

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• What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

  Morley Safer

  Caring, People, Doe

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• The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

  Howard Dean

  White, House, Effort

  "Democrats lambast Bush speech" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

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• Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

  Phil Jackson

  Love, Inspirational, Basketball

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

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• I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Beautiful, Strong Women, Lesbianism

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• Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Jobs, Kindness, Men

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.28, Lantern Books

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• I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

  Sean Bean

  Guy, Trying, Playing Someone

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• Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

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• In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

  Nathan Deal

  Government, Years, White

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