Compassionate Quotes - Page 13

• It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Ideas, Needs

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• One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Exception To The Rule

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• We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

  Katherine Heigl

  Race, Giving, Needs

  "Katherine Heigl positively glows". Interview with William Keck, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 20, 2007.

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• The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

  Anthony Daniels

  Real, Peers, Problem

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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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• The Ryan White Care Act provides money for community-based counseling centers. While that may sound noble and compassionate, we know from experience that "AIDS education" becomes a platform for the homosexual community to recruit adolescents and lure teens into a self-destructive sexual lifestyle.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Self, White, Community

  Concerned Women for America press release, 1995.

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• I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

  Patrick Duffy

  Buddhism, Years, Wife

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• Our real calling to be a compassionate Christian came when we stepped out of the waters of baptism… We don’t need a bishop’s assignment to be kind. We don’t need to sign up to be thoughtful. We don’t need to be sustained by our wards to be sensitive.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Christian, Real, Thoughtful

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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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• Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.234, Hackett Publishing

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• Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.

  Arthur Wallis

  Prayer, Heart, People

  Arthur Wallis (2010). “In the Day of Thy Power: The Spiritual Principles of Revival”, p.130, CLC Publications

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• But the 'project of me' can never be enough, for it does not meet 'the other,' and real living involves meeting. The touch and contact with all of life, the full freedom of non-separation, the completeness of full relationship, and the radiance of compassionate ecstasy is what we are inherently hungry for.

  Rick Jarow

  Real, Doe, Radiance

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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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• Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It is eternal. To be healthy in consciousness means: first, to be awake; second, to be harmonious; third, to be ecstatic; and fourth, to be compassionate.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Mean, Compassion

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• Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we're feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Pain, Meditation

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• There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Caring, People

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick Commanded to be well." And there are totalitarian insinuations to back this up if its appeal should fail.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sick, Lines, Quiet

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.57, Basic Books

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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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• Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to eat makes your consciousness heavy, insensitive; and you need a very sensitive consciousness - very light, very loving, very compassionate. It is difficult for a non-vegetarian to be compassionate; and without being compassionate and loving you will be hindering your own progress.

  Rajneesh

  Light, Vegetarianism, Loving You

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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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• 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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• I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.

  Dalai Lama

  Inner Peace, Mind, Body

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• That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Compassionate Love, True Happiness

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