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• Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

  George Saunders

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  Tags in Sympathetic, Compassion

• I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

  Andrew Sarris

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  Tags in Compassion, Arrogant

• Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you’ll never make history.

  Ben Sobel

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• Only dead fish go with the flow.

  Unknown

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

  Gautama Buddha

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  Tags in Compassion, Include

• Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

  Kevin Rudd

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• The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

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• All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Compassion, Corruption

• We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

  Desmond Tutu

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• Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

  Al Waleed Bin Talal

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• I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

  Mo Yan

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• I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

  Ellen DeGeneres

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• I’m not an activist; I don’t look for controversy. I’m not a political person, but I’m a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

  Ellen DeGeneres

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  Tags in Care, Activist, Passionately, Compassion, Equal, Human, Controversy

• I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we’re all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When you connect with that love and that compassion, that’s when everything unfolds.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Topics in Love, Work

  Tags in Compassion, Different, Purpose

• Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

  Ellen DeGeneres

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  Tags in Traditional, Values, Treated, Equality, Compassion, Treating, Helping

• Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

  Eminem

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• You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

  Ted Olson

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• Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

  David O. McKay

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• It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

  Zachary Quinto

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• I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. ‘If there’s no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.’ That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

  Tom Cruise

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  Tags in Like, Compassion