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Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
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Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Compassion is to be valued more than law.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
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
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We think sometimes that poverty is only
being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa
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
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Forgive with Compassion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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