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Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
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
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
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 can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
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 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
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
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Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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.
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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
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
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
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 best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
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
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
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.
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
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
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
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
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