Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- 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
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- 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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is to be valued more than law.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
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
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- 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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
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
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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 sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
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