Compassionate Quotes - Page 12

• A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands right and wrong, with a strong sense of self is beautiful. A man who can be compassionate and caring, but firm and wise. Someone who can do the right thing no matter who's around to see it. Even if the deed is unseen and unrecognized. That is a beautiful man. One today is worth two tomorrows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

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• Who knew, in 2000, that compassionate conservatism meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief? Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years later, would be one on funding stem-cell research? A more accurate term for Mr. Bush's political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism.

  Christopher Buckley

  Philosophy, Government, Cells

  "Let’s quit while we are behind". washingtonmonthly.com. October 1, 2006.

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• We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.

  Sam Hamill

  Art, Thinking, Humanity

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I still work that expectation/disappointment cycle all the time. I think it is part of the human nature and I think the most important thing is not to judge it. We are human and we do have expectations and a lot of our expectations are often not met. It is a process of learning how to be kind and compassionate and loving to ourselves when we don't get the things we want when people, circumstances, and opportunities don't match our expectations.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Disappointment, Opportunity, Thinking

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.

  Pico Iyer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Years

  "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Love is being understanding and compassionate.

  Haley Pullos

  Love Is, Understanding

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.

  Candace Cameron

  Children, Heart, Doors

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• Maybe the yogi is a parent who's a little more patient with their child, or a more compassionate coworker, or an understanding boss. Perhaps, they pick up a piece of trash that wasn't theirs, turn off a light when they're not in the room, or turn off the water while they brush their teeth, sensitive to the finite nature of our worldly resources. When we become mindful this way, there's a ripple effect. We inspire others to do the same.

  David F. Swensen

  Children, Light, Water

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• My mom is my best friend and always offers me great perspective and reminds me to be compassionate to myself in moments when I feel low.

  Kandyse McClure

  Mom, Perspective, My Best Friend

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Be more loving, compassionate and understanding with ourselves, with others, and with the planet, because we are all connected. We are one.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Understanding, Planets, Connected

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• I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace their uniques expressions as individuals and freethinkers. They are lucky enough to grow up in a time where the individual is celebrated - it is their duty to find their voices so that they can be heard. It is time to practice compassionate communication.

  Leilani Bishop

  Sports, Growing Up, Communication

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• As you begin to feel this enormous shift of consciousness, called multisensory perception, emerging in your awareness, you begin to reorient yourself. It's a reorientation that occurs toward yourself as more than a mind and a body; it's a reorientation that occurs toward others; toward your life as meaningful, rather than predetermined. It's a reorientation that occurs toward the universe as alive, wise and compassionate, instead of inert (which means dead) and random.

  Gary Zukav

  Wise, Meaningful, Mind

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

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• I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Years, Needs

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.

  Michael Beckwith

  Judgment, Our Relationship, Disappear

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Live simply; make compassionate choices when it comes to food.

  Billy Corgan

  Choices, Live Simply

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• I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Memories, Writing, Phones

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't have enough knowledge or wisdom to say anything profound to people all over the world. But maybe a simple "I love you," as corny as it may sound, shows them that I am willing to be compassionate, generous, and peaceful with them.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Love You, Simple, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Love is being accepting of all of their flaws. Love is being understanding and compassionate. Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them. Love is being constantly supportive.

  Haley Pullos

  Mistake, Love Is, Knowing

  "Haley Pullos Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Personality, Brain, World

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• I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.

  Marci Shimoff

  Practice, Forgiving, Kind

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you're having a hard time being compassionate to or forgiving of yourself or others, you repeat these four phrases directed to yourself or the other person: "I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you." And just by saying and feeling those phrases, you will find your heart starts to melt.

  Marci Shimoff

  Sorry, Love You, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Spiritual, Teacher, Interesting

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

  Huston Smith

  Compassion, Self, Sake

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• We all need to be compassionate and know that its is a game for all of us to win, we have to be on the same page and raise our level of awareness of what's possible and the awareness of how powerful we are and how good we need to be to each other.

  John Assaraf

  Powerful, Winning, Games

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• We should all focus on trying to be compassionate to others at all times, and be as understanding as possible towards people we know are hurting. We should try to be there to lift each other up.

  Avril Lavigne

  Hurt, People, Focus

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