Compassion Quotes
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Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.
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A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.
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I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.
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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
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Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.
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Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
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Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.
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Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.
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For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
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A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.
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Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not necessarily really love other, but for their own interest they are showing love, compassion to other like that.
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The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
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Compassion takes imagination.
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There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.
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When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.
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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.
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I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.
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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.
