Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
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At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- 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
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
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Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- 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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- 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
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
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.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is to be valued more than law.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
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
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
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
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- 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
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
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
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
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
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
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- 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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
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
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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