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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
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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
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
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
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 have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
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
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
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
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
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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No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
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
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
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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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 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
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
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Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
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
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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 can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
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