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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.
True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion
Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.
To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.
If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.
I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.
Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.
Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.
Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others." —Cornflower
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.
Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.
To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.
The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come.
True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.
I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.
First Lady Michelle Obama - I admire her confidence, integrity, intelligence, compassion, and her overall vibe - she is such an inspiration.
The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.
He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.
We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.
Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.
I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.
All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.
Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.
What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?
I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.
The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.
I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.
With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
I love my religion, I love everything about it, but at the same time, I love my career, and I want to do it with the same love and compassion.
I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.
We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.