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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual
bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions
such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites,
our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
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, the 14th Dalai Lama
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
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