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• I’m interested in learning that’s motivated by reverence for life, that’s motivated by a desire to learn skills, to learn new things that help us to better contribute to our own well-being and the well-being of others. And what fills me with great sadness is any learning that I see motivated by coercion.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Compassion, Learning

• There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Topics in Attitude, Love

  Tags in Compassion, Learning

• Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Compassion, Gratitude, Heart

• What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Heart

• When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

  Pema Chodron

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Heart

• I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Misery, Charity

• Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can’t see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can’t design or ordain.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Compassion, Generosity, Giving

• …when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Topics in Death, Suffering

  Tags in Compassion, Worth

• The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Justice

  Tags in Compassion, Human Rights, Government, Women

• You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

  Ellen Goodman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Writers And Writing

• The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Kindness, Life

  Tags in Compassion, Solidarity

• Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

  William Cowper

  Tags in Compassion, Dismiss

• There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

  Harvey Ball

  Tags in Compassion, Draw, Compass

• The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Topics in Inspirational, Service

  Tags in Compassion

• Compassion is the basis of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Compassion, Morality, Morals

• Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame — or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.

  Pema Chodron

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Compassion

• You know, there’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit — the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us — the child who’s hungry, the steelworker who’s been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this — when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers — it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help.

  Barack Obama

  Tags in Empathy, Compassion, Government

• The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

  Thomas Merton

  Tags in Awareness, Compassion, Interdependence

• Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.

  Martin Lowenthal

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Compassion

• I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Injustice, Compassion