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• The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds. Judgment is the mind’s primary tool of separation.

  Diane Berke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Judgment

• It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

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  Tags in Compassion, Perception, Achieve, Hope, Imagination

• I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

  John F. Kennedy

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Compassion, Purpose, Ideas, Inventions

• America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

  Paul Tsongas

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  Tags in Compassion, Excellence, Valor

• The more you care, the stronger you can be.

  Jim Rohn

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  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Compassion, Strength

• Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Topics in Attitude, Justice

  Tags in Compassion, War, Virtue

• The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.

  Bell hooks

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Compassion, Freedom

• I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics, Compassion, Reverent, Foundation

• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Love, Religion

  Tags in Compassion, Forgiveness

• It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Solitude, Compassion, Silence

• Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.

  Molleen Matsumura

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Ethics, Compassion, Reason, Relationships

• Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Topics in Humanity, Life, Love

  Tags in Compassion, Relationships

• Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

  Betty Williams

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  Tags in Intuition, Compassion, Reason

• Love is more than a noun — it is a verb; it is more than a feeling — it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Topics in Love, Sacrifice, Service

  Tags in Compassion, Feeling

• Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others.

  Alice Miller

  Topics in Children, Kindness

  Tags in Compassion, Feeling

• Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

  Mason Cooley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Moment

• The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I’d say that compassion begins with attention.

  Daniel Goleman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empathy, Compassion, Attention

• Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection — or compassionate action.

  Daniel Goleman

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  Tags in Empathy, Compassion, Connections, Attention

• Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Compassion, Good, Evil

• We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

  Mairead Maguire

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  Tags in Change/Growth, Compassion, Good, Govern, Grace, Evil