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  I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion-and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.

  Ram Dass

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  Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.

  Solange nicole

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• Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

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  Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

  Hubert Humphrey

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• With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

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• Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

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• To be compassionate is to experience divinity in our everyday life.

  J. P. Vaswani

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• We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

  Joan Halifax

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• Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

  Joan Halifax

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• Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

  Joan Halifax

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• Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

  Joan Halifax

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

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  One of the secrets of Inner Peace is the practice of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

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  Listen with ears of tolerance. See through the eyes of compassion. Speak with the language of love.

  Rumi

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• If you love God, you can’t hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn’t die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

  Radhanath Swami

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• The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

  Radhanath Swami

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  If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

  Gautama Buddha

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  A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

  Nelson Mandela

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  Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

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