Compassionate Quotes - Page 17

• I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I'm not a vegan for health reasons - although obviously I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that's true. But I'm a vegan for compassionate reasons.

  Russell Simmons

  Feel Better, Healthy, Looks

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• I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Jesus, Book

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

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• The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Compassion, Divine

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.48, NavPress

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• It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Courage, Self Confidence, Men

  "The Concept of Irony: With Constant Reference to Socrates". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Collins, "Irony as a Mastered Moment: The Truth of Irony," pt. 2, 1966.

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• Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, Graduation, Children

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.51, New Press, The

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• We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Time, Struggle, Knowledge

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• Customer service is just a day-in, day-out ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type of activity.

  Leon Gorman

  Inspirational, Educational, Ongoing

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• The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our affinity with all who share the gift of life. A compassionate heart provides a firm ground for this precept.

  Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

  Buddhist, Heart, Buddhism

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• In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.

  Harry Browne

  Compassion, People, Giving

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• We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, War, Believe

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself.

  Gary Zukav

  Love, Wish, World

  Gary Zukav (2007). “Thoughts From the Seat of the Soul: Meditations for Souls in Process”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?

  Marla Ruzicka

  Education, Reality, People

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• It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.

  R. C. Sproul

  Brother, Compassion, Important

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  The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

  Coretta Scott King

  Teamwork, Greatness, Compassion

  Coretta Scott King's address at Georgia State University, February 15, 2000.

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• Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Children, Yoga, Compassion

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• Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Peace, Compassion

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• The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

  Eric Maisel

  Depression, Strong, Artist

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• ...Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or cope without structured assistance and compassionate help.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Peace, Mean, Justice

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• Simplicity, patience, compassion.
  These three are your greatest treasures.
  Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
  Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
  Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

  Laozi

  Life, Patience, Philosophy

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• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

  Satish Kumar

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

  Rainn Wilson

  Believe, Way, Realizing

  "Rainn Wilson talks about Hollywood, his family and the Baha'i Faith". U.S. Baha'i News Interview, news.bahai.org. May 24, 2007.

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• Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

  Rainn Wilson

  People, Heartfelt, Stories

  "Rainn Wilson talks about Hollywood, his family and the Baha'i Faith". U.S. Baha'i News Interview, news.bahai.org. May 24, 2007.

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• A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Doors, Self

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• I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.

  Pam Houston

  Loss, Opportunity, Self

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• Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Listening, Suffering

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