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Image of Tara Brach
I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.
- Tara Brach
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Image of Alan Perlis
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
- Alan Perlis
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Image of Barack Obama
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
- Barack Obama
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Image of John of the Cross
Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.
- John of the Cross
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Image of Radhanath Swami
Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
- Radhanath Swami
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Image of Jeffrey R. Holland
To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, we call out "Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "My hand is stretched out still" (Isaiah 5:25: 9:17,21). "...His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears".
- Jeffrey R. Holland
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Image of Moby
I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.
- Moby
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Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Image of Marshall B. Rosenberg
When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.
- Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Image of Alan Paton
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
- Alan Paton
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Image of David Platt
If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all
- David Platt
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Image of Brené Brown
Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.
- Brené Brown
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Image of Ronald Reagan
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
- Ronald Reagan
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Image of Radhanath Swami
Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.
- Radhanath Swami
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Image of Radhanath Swami
Lord's love manifests in this world as compasssion.
- Radhanath Swami
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Image of Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of William Penn
If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
- William Penn
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Allan Bloom
The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.
- Allan Bloom
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Image of Louise Hay
If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who "did all that stuff to you" were just as frightened and scared as you are.
- Louise Hay
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Image of Bette Midler
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
- Bette Midler
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Image of George Saunders
Compassion doesn't have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.
- George Saunders
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Image of Rumi
We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.
- Rumi
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Image of Anne Rice
That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.
- Anne Rice
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Image of Neal Shusterman
What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.
- Neal Shusterman
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Image of Henry Ward Beecher
People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Image of Laozi
Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
- Laozi
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Image of Marianne Williamson
Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.
- Marianne Williamson
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Image of Thomas Sowell
Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes
- Thomas Sowell
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Image of James E. Faust
Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give rather than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is a way to overcome too much self-love
- James E. Faust
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Image of Shunryu Suzuki
The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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Image of Edith Wharton
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
- Edith Wharton
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Image of Terry Pratchett
YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Ken Keyes Jr.
I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth.
- Ken Keyes Jr.
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Image of William Wordsworth
Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.
- William Wordsworth
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Image of Susan Sontag
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling.
- Susan Sontag
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Image of Susan Sontag
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
- Susan Sontag
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Image of Surya Das
Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.
- Surya Das
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Image of Stefan Zweig
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.
- Stefan Zweig
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Image of Jeffrey R. Holland
Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.
- Jeffrey R. Holland
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Image of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Image of Dwight L. Moody
His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Image of Thomas Merton
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Barack Obama
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Cheryl Strayed
But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.
- Cheryl Strayed
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Image of Radhanath Swami
We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.
- Radhanath Swami
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Image of Tara Brach
In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.
- Tara Brach
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Image of Stephen Levine
That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
- Stephen Levine
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