Compassionate Quotes - Page 5

• If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

  Hasdai ibn Shaprut

  Acceptance, Ifs

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• Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Opportunity, Illness

  Judith Orloff, M.D. (2015). “The Power of Surrender: Let Go and Energize Your Relationships, Success, and Well-Being”, p.308, Harmony

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• I feel like I'm a compassionate guy, but I also feel if somebody's grip on life or sanity is so tenuous that a joke in an advice column that usually is nothing but jokes pushes them over the edge, then if not me, it would have been a leaf blowing past them that did it, or something else. You almost have to feel that way, doing this.

  Dan Savage

  Past, Guy, Advice

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• There's a lot of food restriction in the Bible, but it does say you're allowed to eat crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. I decided to take advantage of that and eat a cricket. It was chocolate-covered, and I'm not sure that's the way they were served in Moses' time. But this was a rule that seemed crazy on the outside, then actually turned out to be pragmatic and compassionate.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Crazy, Chocolate, Doe

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• My ideal world was the early days of Twitter, where everyone was curious about each other and everyone saw it as kind of a window into people's lives where we could be compassionate and curious and empathetic and we could tell each other secrets.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Secret, World

  "Jon Ronson gets serious about Ashley Madison and Twitter-shaming". Interview with Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2015.

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• God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Tolerance, Nine

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.240, Rajpal & Sons

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• It's an enormous opportunity to get a message out to people who may be less likely to read and listen to CDs - to people who would otherwise not be exposed to the most important teachings on the planet. These teachings are about how can we get along and survive as a people - how we can love each other, be kind and decent, serve each other, and be compassionate. Unfortunately, there aren't many messages like that in the popular culture.

  Wayne Dyer

  Teaching, Opportunity, People

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• Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Responsibility, Helping Others, Would Be

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• The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death... Choose life."

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Home, Caring

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• Whether we love humanity or not, we must realize that we are part of it. My future depends entirely on the future of humanity, and so I am compelled to take care of humanity. That is why being compassionate is actually in my own best interest. And a symptom of my own peace of mind is that I can share comfort with others around me.

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, Mind, Comfort

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Work with yourself. Work. If you have a partner, so much the better. Speak. Use whatever process is appropriate. Know that this universe is compassionate, aware and alive. This is a universe of life. This is not a material enterprise. It is a spiritual enterprise and it is filled with loving assistance. This is a thought form that must be in place in order for you to receive assistance.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Order, Alive

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• I think the American people would be compassionate and practical. But we need to be talking about assimilation as well, something that is politically incorrect, I know, to say that people should learn English, should learn American exceptionalism, shouldn't come here to use our freedoms to undermine the freedoms we give to everybody. But there's nothing wrong with saying people who want to come here should want to be Americans.

  Bobby Jindal

  Thinking, Talking, People

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Homoeopathic treatment is my first choice not only for me but also for my family. Homoeopathy should be developed as full- fledged alternative system of medicine. More research and more development are essential to make Homoeopathy more popular and useful Homoeopath treats their patients in more compassionate way. Homoeopathy is second largest system of medicine being practiced in India.

  K. R. Narayanan

  Medicine, Choices, India

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• Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.

  Vinoba Bhave

  God, Simple, Skills

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• Have confidence in the compassion of our Creator. Reflect well on what you are now doing, and keep before you the things you have done. Lift up your eyes to the overflowing compassion of heaven, and while He waits for you, draw near in tears to our merciful Judge. Having before your mind that He is a Just Judge, do not take your sins lightly; and having also in mind that He is compassionate, do not despair. The God-Man gives man confidence before God.

  Pope Gregory I

  Christian, Eye, Men

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• You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.

  George Lucas

  Spiritual, People, Giving

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I think we have to stand up against what is unacceptable, and to push the boundaries and reclaim a more humane way of being in the world, so that we can extend our compassionate intelligence and begin to work with a strengthened will and imagination that can take us into the future.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Thinking, Humane Way, Imagination

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel—it’s that postmodern thing—it’s more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being’s experience.

  Andre Dubus

  Beautiful, Book, Fall

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• In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Literature, Matter

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• You've got this world, these pathologists that are, day in and day out, taking apart bodies, coming up with theories about how they died and how to better serve the community. At the same time these people have lives outside and families and my character in particular, he has a fiance and things are going well for him, so you've got to show that nice warm compassionate side at the same time you've got to show the steely, icy cool of a doctor. Not only that, but a doctor who gets a bit of a God complex and starts killing people for sport.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Sports, Nice, Character

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Huge imbalance in power has resulted in the alienation, rage, fury, and awful amoral terrorism that has erupted and is erupting at the present time. And in order to counter this, we need to make the compassionate voice of religion and morality a dynamic force in our world.

  Karen Armstrong

  Voice, Our World, Order

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one we have in the United Nations whereby, where there's a problem in our society which demands a compassionate response, an educated, informed, not just a splurgy emotional thing, but an informed compassionate response that puts yourself in the position of the other and sees all sides of the problem, not just your own, there'll be somebody poised in each society who can write to the media, write an op-ed piece, to go on TV or radio.

  Karen Armstrong

  Team, Writing, Emotional

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.

  Mother Angelica

  Jesus, Hate, Grateful

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1983 - ).

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• To consciously evolve, we require clear vision of a compassionate future that draws out our enthusiastic participation in life.

  Duane Elgin

  Vision, Enthusiastic, Participation

  Duane Elgin (1993). “Awakening earth: exploring the evolution of human culture and consciousness”, William Morrow & Co

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• More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Concern For Others, Mind, Source

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