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Image of Steven Erikson
I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.
- Steven Erikson
Collection: Compassion
Image of Maya Angelou
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."
- Maya Angelou
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Image of Meister Eckhart
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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Image of Gustave Flaubert
My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.
- Gustave Flaubert
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Image of Albert Einstein
Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Steven Erikson
Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.
- Steven Erikson
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Image of Wayne Dyer
Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.
- Wayne Dyer
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Image of Debbie Ford
Compassion allows us to understand that, as citizens of the planet, we’re all in this together and that in order to ensure our survival we must hold and cultivate a new and larger vision of what’s possible for ourselves and for the human race as a whole.
- Debbie Ford
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Image of Albert Einstein
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Jonathan Safran Foer
What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?
- Jonathan Safran Foer
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Image of Debbie Ford
Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?
- Debbie Ford
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Image of Maya Angelou
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
- Maya Angelou
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Image of Dogen
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
- Dogen
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Image of Amit Abraham
Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness
- Amit Abraham
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Image of Lawrence Wright
It's easy enough to predict that there will be conflict, but you place yourself in a maelstrom when you offer a view about the conflict, and I don't have an investment in one side or the other; I feel compassion for both sides. I've spent a fair amount of time in Gaza and Israel, done a lot of reporting and lived over there, and the tragedy is sometimes overwhelming. At the same time, America does have an investment in what happens.
- Lawrence Wright
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Image of Barbara Ehrenreich
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs
- Barbara Ehrenreich
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Bob Dylan
If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Frederick Lenz
To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Frederick Lenz
By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Epictetus
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
- Epictetus
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Image of Henry Giroux
As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.
- Henry Giroux
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Image of Meister Eckhart
No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
- Meister Eckhart
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Image of George Eliot
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
- George Eliot
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Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Image of Nadine Gordimer
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
- Nadine Gordimer
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Image of Jane Goodall
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
- Jane Goodall
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Pankaj Mishra
We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.
- Pankaj Mishra
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Image of Pankaj Mishra
What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule.
- Pankaj Mishra
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Image of Karen Armstrong
And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront.
- Karen Armstrong
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Image of Milton Friedman
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.
- Milton Friedman
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Image of Jane Goodall
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
- Jane Goodall
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Image of Billy Graham
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.
- Billy Graham
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Image of Richard Gere
When I am in Tibet, I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. The Dalai Lama's holiness generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.
- Richard Gere
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Image of Karen Armstrong
The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion, and unless you live that out compassionately, selflessly, you didn't understand what the doctrine was saying.
- Karen Armstrong
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Ellen Goodman
Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.
- Ellen Goodman
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Karen Armstrong
Compassion is not a popular virtue
- Karen Armstrong
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Image of Daniel Goleman
The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.
- Daniel Goleman
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Image of Billy Graham
We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)
- Billy Graham
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Image of Richard Gere
If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.
- Richard Gere
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Image of Karen Armstrong
...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others
- Karen Armstrong
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Image of Karen Armstrong
Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.
- Karen Armstrong
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