Nadine Gordimer Quotes
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
Nadine Gordimer
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
Sam Harris
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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
Radhanath Swami
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
Ted Olson
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
Jackie Tabick
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
Karen Armstrong
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In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.
Betsy Hodges
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Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable.
Homer
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When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'.
Oscar Wilde
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There's a great difference between being positive and being delusional.
Amy Chan
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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
Nadine Gordimer
