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• We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.

  Alysia Reiner

  Compassion, Ideas, Choices

  "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• I appreciate zeal and energy and passion but in our zeal, we just need to do it in a loving way and do it in a compassionate way, not share our faith in a robotic or mechanical way, but interact with the person, listen to them, and respond appropriately to their questions.

  Greg Laurie

  Passion, Appreciate, Way

  "Greg Laurie: Watered-Down Mainline Christianity Is a Sign of the End Times (Interview)". Interview with Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Kings, Luxury, Long

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• I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but when you think that honesty and truth is really your best weapon you embrace it and put it behind you. In the end, it drives you and motivates you to do good work. No one should be ashamed about where they come from as long as you desire to be a compassionate and decent person.

  George Lopez

  Honesty, Lying, Thinking

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• Liberals don't love big government because they think it's efficient, compassionate, fair or even remotely useful. They support big government because they are guaranteed the support of nearly everyone who works for the government.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Government, Support

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• One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's best become feasible. If you let go of your own compulsion and greed the things you are conditioned into by your culture then the more archetypal, more universally valid, more human, more compassionate, wiser activities and thoughts can come to your mind and you can dedicate yourself to them more fully.

  Rafe Martin

  Letting Go, Creating, Space

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• There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Needs, Alternatives, Fur

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• A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce ineffective photographs, no matter how idealistic, compassionate, sensitive or imaginative he may be. For in order to be considered good, a photograph must not only say something worthwhile, it must say it well.

  Andreas Feininger

  Order, Ideas, Feelings

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• ... I know for sure, that the universe is wise and compassionate. The question then becomes: How can there be such brutality and pain and such suffering in the world if the universe is compassionate and wise. The reason is we put it there. We create it. And it is up to us to stop creating it.

  Gary Zukav

  Wise, Pain, Creating

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• It is absolutely a good thing that she [Angelina Jolie] helped to educate the world about the existence of this mutation; hopefully, as a result, more compassionate understanding exists regarding the choices BRCA carriers must face.

  Kristi Funk

  Choices, Understanding, Mutation

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Compassion, People, Creative

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think my first big heartbreak made me more compassionate about other people's heartaches. It enabled me to feel more for others when they are in moments of pain.

  Kerry Washington

  Pain, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

  Robin Williams

  Gun, Conservative, Volvo

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• Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Doctors, Patient

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• It's difficult to change, because I have to admit that I have been previously living in a less compassionate and loving way. Sometimes we just want to be right instead of fully conscious.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Want, Way, Sometimes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Believe, Play, Desire

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• We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.

  Clare of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Mean

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• America is the most compassionate country in the entire world. We do more for folks around this world. And that's the nature of the American people.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, America, People

  CNN Reagan Library Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 16, 2015.

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• Meditation has become an ingrained part of my everyday life that helps me feel so much more centered, patient and compassionate. It even gives me great physical energy.

  Tim McCarthy

  Giving, Meditation, Everyday

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• Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

  Peter Kreeft

  Philosophy, Caring, Moral Absolutism

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• The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, Eating, Respectful

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• I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Children, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Laughter, Children, Wall

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• The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Adjectives, Humans

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• People who think of God as a warrior may become warriors themselves, whether in a Christian crusade, a Muslim jihad, or an apocalyptically oriented militia. People who think of God as righteous are likely to emphasize righteousness themselves, just as those who think of God as compassionate are likely to emphasize compassion. People who think God is angry at the world are likely to be angry at the world themselves.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Warrior, Thinking

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