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“People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony ...”
“She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the immanence of all living things in each other, for the attraction of life for its likeness. A ti...”
“If you cant see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then youre not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself.”
“when you hate others, you hate yourself.when you hate yourself, you hate others.when you love others, you love yourself.when you love yourself, you love others.there is no separation.”
“Being right is massively overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of being compassionate and kind.”
“Approaching this day with optimism and fire, with patience and determination, with compassion and love.”
“When you give to others, you give to yourself.”
“There's just no time for hatred. It's lazy and destructive. We can all do better. Our world needs us to.I love you.”
“I can think of no greater way to live my life than with as much love as I can give, as often as I can give it.”
“We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.”
“A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.”
“It is impossible to experience a persons life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.”
“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the compassionate?Woe to all lovers who cann...”
“empathy is more powerful than sympathy”
“We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that our brethren experience.”
“We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.”
“We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life.”
“I've never known someone to become more at home in his or her own body, in all of its flaws and its grace, without becoming more compassionate to all of life.”
“If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.”
“Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.”
