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Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Compassion is to be valued more than law.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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.
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
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
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
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
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
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
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
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
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
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
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
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
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
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
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
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