Compassionate Quotes - Page 26

• The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Humble, Midlife

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• The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Emotional, Hands, Worry

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• I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Book, Communication, Reading

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• From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humorous, Encounters

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• The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Book, Communication

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• The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can't ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship - if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.

  Bernie Glassman

  Teacher, Children, Lying

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• Go out into the world, do your best all day, try to think higher thoughts, try to be kind and compassionate, but don't let people take advantage of you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Able, Needs

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• NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself from cultural learning that is in conflict with how I want to live my life. 2) to empower myself to connect with myself and others in a way that makes compassionate giving natural. 3) to empower myself to create structures that support compassionate giving.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Mean, Skills

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• Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Compassion, Suffering, Different

  "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.

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• Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Sarcastic, Book, Cynical

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• Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3 Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.

  Jonah

  Home, Fleeing, Lord

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• The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rich

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.89, 1909.

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• By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and their dignity is destroyed. Is it compassionate to enslave more and more people by making them a part of the government dependency cycle? I think compassion should be measured by how many people no longer need it. Helping people to become self-sufficient is much more compassionate than drugging them with the narcotic of welfare.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hurt, Thinking, Compassion

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• If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mekka or a virgin in a catholic orphanage.

  Pat Condell

  Wise, Dancing, Catholic

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"What Have I Got Against Religion?", www.youtube.com. March 04, 2007.

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• Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

  Elizabeth Cox

  War, Struggle, Eye

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• It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative,
  but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

  Robin Williams

  Gun, Sound, Conservative

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• Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Action, Be Careful, Belittle

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• [When we drop our agendas] we begin to cultivate a mind of true goodness and compassion, which comes out of a concern for the Whole. As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of giving or of making a sacrifice. We become open, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

  Steve Hagen

  Wise, Sacrifice, Compassion

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• A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

  Bernie Siegel

  Wise, People, Sick

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.15, Random House

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• The principles of Nonviolent Communication taught by Dr. Rosenberg are instrumental in creating an extraordinary and fulfilling quality of life. His compassionate and inspiring message cuts right to the heart of successful communication.

  Tony Robbins

  Communication, Heart, Cutting

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• Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it!

  Les Brown

  Garbage Cans, Imagination, People

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• It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.

  Sam Harris

  Prayer, Men, Elderly

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• Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.

  Jonathan Morris

  Motivation, Compassion, People

  "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Catholic Channel on SiriusXM". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.

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• I don't want to bring myself down to place where there are hard and fast rules. In general I try to be compassionate, but that is dependent on the moment ultimately.

  Margaret Cho

  Trying, Want, Moments

  "Margaret Cho On Facing the Future and Chocolate Ice Cream". Interview with Christopher Margolin, thepoetryquestion.com. June, 2013.

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