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COMPASSION
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama quotes (Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, b.1935)
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.” Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)
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“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 quotes (American and Trappist Monk t Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968)
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“Compassion is the basis of all morality”
Arthur Schopenhauer quotes (German Philosopher, 1788-1860)
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“The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.”
Arthur H. Stainback quotes!
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
Lord Byron quotes (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)
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“For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.” Paula Cole quotes
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“Make no judgements where you have no compassion.”
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“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”
Hubert H. Humphrey quotes (American 38th US Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-69) and US Senator from Minnesota (1949-64, 1971-78). 1911-1978)
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“I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'”
superfrodo Conor Oberst quotes (American Singer and Song Writer. )
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