"Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength."
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"What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires."
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"Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence."
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"I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion."
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"Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health."
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"All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other."
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"Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction"
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"On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing."
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"If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'."
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"We men should be ashamed of ourselves. I think 85 percent of men are dangerous to women. We need to change to a values system nested in compassion and generosity, and women have carried that torch throughout history."
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"At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me."
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"Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us."
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"Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind."
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"The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious."
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"Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs."
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"We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)"
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"Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under."
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"I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day."
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"Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more."
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"For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion."
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