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Please enjoy these Quotes about Compassion and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We think sometimes that poverty is only
being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
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We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Compassion is to be valued more than law.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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