Compassionate Quotes - Page 14

• Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.

  Brenda Ueland

  Art, Fighting, Compassion

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities. But how does the government treat people? Like garbage-worse than garbage. Not like commodities, but like nothing. We libertarians understand that we are not humane, we are not compassionate. It's the leftists and the liberals, they're the ones who are human and compassionate, but you'd better not get in their way.

  Ralph Raico

  Government, People, Libertarian

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• An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Motivational, Compassion, Design

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 22, 2013

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• The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moving, Compassion, World

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• Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Men, Forgiving

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• Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happiness, Buddhist

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• I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happy, Friends

  "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight".

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• It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

  Dalai Lama

  Diversity, Enough, Rectify

  Dalai Lama XIV (2009). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Compassionate the mountains rise
  Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
  That, having looked on life time out of mind,
  Know that the simple gift of being kind
  Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.

  DuBose Heyward

  Wise, Kindness, Eye

  DuBose Heyward (1924). “Skylines and Horizons”

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• Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.

  Gary Zukav

  Karma, Compassion, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jul 22, 2012

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• Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Work, Heart

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• Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Team, Humanity, Transition

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• Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.

  Irving Kristol

  Country, Nice, People

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, Cost, Libertarian

  Murray Rothbard (2009). “Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8”, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Honesty, Government, People

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• As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

  Rajneesh

  Compassion, Energy, Violence

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• I would like you to accept only one prayer, and that is laughter, because when you are totally laughing you are in the present. You cannot laugh in the future and you cannot laugh in the past. All those people who have created this retarded humanity have taken away all juice, all laughter, all smiles, and dragged everybody into being inauthentic. And if you are inauthentic, insincere, you can never grow the seed that has been given to you by this great compassionate universe.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Prayer, Taken

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• Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. [It] is immortal. You are a powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirit that has entered the Earth school to learn lessons and to give gifts. Your personality is a tool of your soul.

  Gary Zukav

  Powerful, School, Giving

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• What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt Christian love for others? Over time this would have a transformative effect upon all of our Heavenly Father's children through the extension of His love to them through us.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Christian, Children, Father

  "Be Anxiously Engaged" by M. Russell Ballard, www.lds.org. October 2012.

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• The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

  Paul Hawken

  Inspiring, Future, Intelligent

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• Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.

  Duane Elgin

  Appreciation, Mean, Simplicity

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• With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible.

  Irwin Corey

  Change, Heart, Profound

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• This is the way addled liberals really think. Even as they champion sucking the brains out of little babies, they think of themselves as indelibly compassionate because they favor an overweening, behemoth federal government.

  Ann Coulter

  Baby, Thinking, Government

  "Bush can name the **^%*" by Ann Coulter, www.jewishworldreview.com. September 15, 2000.

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• I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.

  Greer Garson

  Thinking, Mirrors, Brave

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• I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

  Elton John

  Inspirational, Motivational, Jesus

  "Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. February 17, 2010.

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