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• I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.

  Alana Stewart

  Mother, Wife, Understanding

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• Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.

  Andy Stanley

  Selfless, Generous

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• I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

  Charlie Crist

  Moving, Thinking, Florida

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• The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

  Gary Zukav

  Wise, Generosity, Choices

  "Occupy Your Heart" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wise, Fall, Intelligent

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

  Pema Chodron

  Ego, Scare, Inquiry

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Our World, Goal

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• Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.

  Allen Drury

  Kindness, Judging, Understanding

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• I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing I won't be irrevocably shattered [p. 59]

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Thinking, Knowing, Want

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• Deep down am I superstitious? No. Do I believe in trying to be as kind as possible and as compassionate as possible because ultimately you're alone with yourself and your own conscience, and you want that to be as clear as possible? That's not superstition. You have to just try and stay pure and know what you value.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Trying, Superstitions

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 02, 2016

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• Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Kindness, Compassion, Essence

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• A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Heart, Judging, Humanity

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• Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

  Geneen Roth

  Wish, Awareness, Pantomime

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• We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.

  Frederick William Faber

  Christian, Sweet, Jesus

  Frederick William Faber (1854). “All for Jesus; or, The easy ways of divine love”, p.2

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• When you are blessing the sick, you beg of the Almighty, but actually you are not begging for anything, because from inside your being, energy is pouring into the other person. It is from a state of compassion, of compassionate meditation, that the healing activity of God, within the being, flows.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Healing, Blessing, Compassion

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• Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.

  Edmund Bourne

  Change, Kindness, Compassion

  Edmund Bourne (2009). “Global Shift: How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity”, p.325, New Harbinger Publications

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• When you are in Joy, you are compassionate. When you are in Joy, you are considerate and caring.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Caring, Joy, Considerate

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• If I had to go into a battle and I needed someone loyal and courageous to cover my blindside, I know damn well Woody would be my man. I know, too, that God hasn't created a more generous, compassionate, or more understanding man than Woody Hayes.

  Jack Tatum

  Men, Understanding, Battle

  Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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• The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really difficult. It gives us a certain amount of inner peace, which allows us some self-control, so that we can choose to respond to situations in an appropriate and compassionate manner, rather than being driven by our disturbing emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Patience, Buddhist

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• The vegan diet is healthy and leads to a compassionate lifestyle. I've gotten so many benefits. My weight is easily maintained, my skin glows, I sleep better and I feel more energized.

  Meagan Duhamel

  Sleep, Healthy, Skins

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• Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

  Dalai Lama

  Hands, Waiting, Mind

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• Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and respected him deeply... His unscrupulous past and cynical opportunism were being largely forgotten or forgiven. He was gradually becoming recognized not only as the prophet of a new Conservatism, at once compassionate at home and positive abroad, but as a great statesmen whom the Queen did well to honour. Power had brought responsibility. By 1878 the transformation in public attitudes towards Disraeli was complete.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Queens, Attitude, Responsibility

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• Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Education

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• I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals involved (the Golden Rule), and because they push the envelope, moving us closer to the compassionate world that all animal rights activists are working toward...On the other hand, working toward welfare reforms has the immediate benefit of helping improve animals' lives today and acts as a crucial stepping stone toward animal liberation.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Animal, Rights

  "Getting from A to Z: Why Animal Activists Should Support Incremental Reforms to Help Animals" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2011.

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