Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. ...
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Sayings by Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Universal Sayings
I am a unique expression of the universal fabric of creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
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Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever a man or women is truly inspired,
it is because the same One Universal Spirit
is doing the inspiring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The universal Mind contains all knowledge.
It is the potential ultimate of all things.
To it, all things are possible.
- Ernest Holmes
When the universal sacraments of compassion and joy
fill the vast cathedral of our being,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion Sayings
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Forgive with Compassion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
I choose acceptance and compassion toward all humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Compassion blooms where there is no expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A consistent state of Serenity and Compassion
is living an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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