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Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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Physical fitness is not only one of
the most important keys to a healthy body,
it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
- John F. Kennedy
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler
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
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- 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
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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Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
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
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
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 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
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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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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
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
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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
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
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
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
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
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
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
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
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
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
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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