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“When bad things happen or you don't get your own way, if you can open your heart to compassion instead of shunting it down in anger, you're going to create more light.”
“For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.”
“Enlightenment seems paradoxical but all it needs is compassion”
“It is hard to draw any line between compassion and love.”
“Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!”
“Each of us has a call on our lives. This call says, Its time to get your act together, then take it on the road. This call says, Put on your traveling shoes so that you can be of use to others... s...”
“It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face.”
“The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.”
“Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others”
“If You KnewWhat if you knew you'd be the lastto touch someone?If you were taking tickets, for example,at the theater, tearing them,giving back the ragged stubs,you might take care to touch that pal...”
“Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?”
“Then she said, with piteous defiance, "If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on an old lady who didn't have an easy life.”
“When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?”
“Once you understand love, you dont need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you dont need a reward for breathing.”
“If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion will raise within your heart;If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be;And when in serving o...”
“If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.”
“In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.”
“It is only once you see the baffled expression on the face of your enemy when you give his cruel words a warm smile that youll understand, truly understand, what love is all about.”
“Take off that coat,' he told him.'Sir?''You heard me.'The boy slipped out of his jacket, whining, 'What you gonna do? What I'm gonna wear?'The man untied the baby from her chest and wrapped it in t...”
“Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in i...”
