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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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
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
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
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
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love is the absence of judgment.
- 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
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
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
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