"ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION."
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"We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained."
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"If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider."
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"Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others."
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"Bless the Lord, o my soul, and forget none of His benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion."
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"Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice."
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"Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock."
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"I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion."
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"Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth."
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"We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it."
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"Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral"
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"Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness."
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"Return animosity with virtue."
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"Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world."
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"The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own."
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"The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region."
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"O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful."
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"A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of."
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"Compassion is a verb."
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"From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it."
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