Suffering Of Others Quotes

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  What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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• You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

  Saadi

  Pain, Fitting, Feels

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• The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Essence, Desire

  Dalai Lama (2012). “Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World”, p.11, Random House

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• Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Commitment, Responsibility, Compassion

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• Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Compassion

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• For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Kids

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 01, 2012.

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

  Saadi

  Indifference, Traitor, Indifferent

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• DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN REALITY, THEIR OWN DREAM. WHEN YOU ARE IMMUNE TO THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS, YOU WON'T BE THE VICTIM OF NEEDLESS SUFFERING.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream

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• We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  People, Joy, Becoming

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• Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Safety, Comfort

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.292, Harper Collins

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• What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Reality, Personal Opinions, Confusion

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

  Geoffrey Wood

  Matter, Heal, Ifs

  Geoffrey Wood (2011). “Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero”, WaterBrook

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• Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Karma, Agreement

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Personal Opinions, Development, Four Agreements

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

  Will Tuttle

  Compassion, Connections, Ethical

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.35, Lantern Books

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• ... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Hardship

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Imagination, Moral, Small Things

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• If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

  Meher Baba

  Happiness, Vegetarian, Christianity

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In the depths of every wound we have survived is the strength we need to live. The wisdom our wounds can offer us is a place of refuge. Finding this is not for the faint of heart. But then, neither is life.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Heart, Order, Depth

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• It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

  Mary Robinson

  People, Empathy, Suffering

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when two men suddenly see a child about to fall into a well, they all have a feeling of alarm and distress, not to gain friendship with the child's parents, nor to seek the praise of their neighbors and friends. From such a case, we see that a man without the feeling of commiseration is not a man. The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity.

  Mencius

  Children, Fall, Men

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• The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Motivational, Philosophy, Happy Life

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 1, 2012.

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• As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  War, Compassion, Sea

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