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Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
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Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
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
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
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
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
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
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
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
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
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
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- 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
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
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
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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