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Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.
- Dalai Lama
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Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever
- Dalai Lama
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Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.
- Dalai Lama
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On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.
- Dalai Lama
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You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.
- Satish Kumar
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Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.
- Rush Limbaugh
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I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend
- Dalai Lama
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I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.
- Dalai Lama
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If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.
- Dalai Lama
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I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.
- Vince Lombardi
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That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
- Hosea Ballou
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We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?
- Dalai Lama
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Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.
- Dalai Lama
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Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
- Madeleine L'Engle
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind
- Dalai Lama
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Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.
- Dalai Lama
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It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.
- Dalai Lama
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If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
- Dalai Lama
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Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of punishment to say they were wrong, but show them they are part of society and can change. Show them compassion.
- Dalai Lama
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Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.
- Dalai Lama
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Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.
- Dalai Lama
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Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.
- Monica Lewinsky
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Online we have a compassion deficit
- Monica Lewinsky
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The most potent thing we can do is to bring more compassion online.
- Monica Lewinsky
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Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
- Jack Kornfield
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Compassion seems to be the greatest power.
- Dalai Lama
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The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
- Dean Koontz
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Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
- Nicholas D. Kristof
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Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.
- Dalai Lama
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To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.
- Dalai Lama
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Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.
- Rush Limbaugh
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
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Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.
- Dalai Lama
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I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.
- Dalai Lama
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The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.
- Dalai Lama
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When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.
- Dalai Lama
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Compassion is concern of others' well being.
- Dalai Lama
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The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
- Jack Kornfield
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We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.
- Dalai Lama
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What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.
- Dalai Lama
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Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.
- Dalai Lama
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You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.
- Mallory Ortberg
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It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.
- Dalai Lama
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Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.
- Dalai Lama
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Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.
- Dalai Lama
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I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.
- Dalai Lama
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