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“Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.”
“To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)”
“I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the...”
“Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter s...”
“Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.”
“...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.”
“one does not remember ones own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us”
“How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?”
“As long as you are standing, give a hand to those who have fallen.”
“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
“A dog has the soul of a philosopher.”
“Perhaps, murmured his lordship, I yielded to a compassionate impulse.A what? gasped his best friend. Oh, did you think I never did so? said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely p...”
“In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.”
“Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.”
“If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.”
“Praise be to God; whose compassion is all-embracing and Whose mercy is universal; Who rewards His servants for their remembrance [dhikr] [of Him] with His remembrance [of them] - verily God (Exalte...”
“The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not hav...”
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.”
“Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart withoutbrain.”
