Compassionate Quotes - Page 12

• If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, Essence, Listening

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• You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says 'I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,' and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says 'Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.' This is a miracle.

  Mark Driscoll

  Crush, Running, Jesus

  "Jesus Took Our Wrath (Propitiation),". Sermon preached at Mars Hill Church, November 6, 2005.

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• One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Coaching, Listening

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• The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

  Noah Levine

  Wise, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

  Homer Hickam

  Optimistic, People, Mind

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• A simple smile. That's the start of
  opening your heart and being
  compassionate to others.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Simple, Opening

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• I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that what has been going on with the United States over the period of that last three years, the divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society, the divisions - whether it's between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or in the war in Vietnam - that we can work together. We are a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country. And I intend to make that my basis for running.

  Robert Kennedy

  Running, Country, War

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• My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Giving, Understanding, Trying

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• The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Mean, Happy Life

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• If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Concern For Others, Tolerance

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• As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you seemingly know better. Spiritually and intellectually, you realize there is another way, but emotionally you are still clinging to the old habits. This is a difficult time. Try to be patient and compassionate with yourself. When you recognize the futility of an old pattern so clearly, it's about to change! A short time later, you will suddenly begin to respond differently, in a more positive way.

  Shakti Gawain

  Old Habits, Long, Trying

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.162, Mango Media Inc.

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• By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

  John Templeton

  Challenges, Stronger, Overcoming

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.14, Templeton Foundation Press

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• We can only transform humanity and create a happier more compassionate world through education.

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, World

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• Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.

  Katherine Paterson

  Fun, Book, Doors

  "My Term As The National Ambassador For Young People’s Literature" by Katherine Paterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Broken, Done

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• If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

  Dalai Lama

  Concern For Others, Oneness, Humanity

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• The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.

  Robert Cheeke

  Fairness And Equality, Support, Way To Live

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.33, Book Publishing Company

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• A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

  Garrison Keillor

  Wish, Lasts, Conservative

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• There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  New York, Cities, People

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• The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Heart, Life Is

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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• A compassionate soul is inner beauty.

  Keiko Fukuda

  Inner Beauty, Soul

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• Pause and remember - Every person is going through difficult hardships and growth. Let's be more conscious of this by being more patient, compassionate and understanding.

  Jennifer Young

  Recovery, Loss, Understanding

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• I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

  Frank Ocean

  Shells, Fuzzy, Projects

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

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• You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

  Faith Hunter

  Warrior, Way, Calm

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• Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies, and I am, after all, a compassionate man.

  Neal Boortz

  Men, Emotional, Too Much

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