Compassionate Quotes - Page 18

• Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting.

  Dan Chaon

  Wise, Real, Class

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• Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.

  Mitch Albom

  Responsibility, Would Be, World

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.163, Broadway Books

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• If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage. I doubt that you would read a close friend's early efforts and, in his or her presence, roll your eyes and snicker. I doubt that you would pantomime sticking your finger down your throat. I think you might say something along the lines of, 'Good for you. We can work out some of the problems later, but for now, full steam ahead!

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Eye, Thinking

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.31, Anchor

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• I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

  Leo Rosten

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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• We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Practice, Simplicity, Path

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.191, Shambhala Publications

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• Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

  Michelle Tea

  Beautiful, Pain, Work Out

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• Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Compassion, Faces

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• Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life...The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love...Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope.

  Pope Francis

  Church, Foundation, New Life

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• I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.

  Yann Martel

  Country, Intelligent, People

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.6, Vintage Canada

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• I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Compassion, Should Have

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• We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Compassion, Becoming, Pity

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• How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

  Richard Bach

  Trouble, Easy

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• Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

  Harry Browne

  People, Moral, Humanitarian

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• I think having a dog makes you more compassionate.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Dog, Thinking

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• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  Harry Browne

  Compassion, Mind, Needs

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• The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

  Pema Chodron

  Ideas, Scary, Taught

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• When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

  Dave Grohl

  Kids, Eye, Littles

  "10 Questions for Dave Grohl". Time Interview, content.time.com. December 14, 2009.

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• We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

  Anne Hathaway

  Attitude, War, People

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• Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

  Jewel

  Hard Times, Bitter, Hard

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• One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book.

  Terrance Hayes

  Smart, Book, Achievement

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• Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Safety, Goes On, Poor

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• In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Compassion, Pity

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• In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

  Helen Thomas

  Nice, Past, Men

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• We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Doctors, Nurse, People

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• I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving to everyone. And then, as I got into my career, I started and other people started to realize that I was good at it.

  Shep Gordon

  Mom, Dad, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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