"When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves."
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"I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives."
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"Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically."
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"Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world."
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"The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion."
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"Compassion is concern of others' well being."
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"When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy."
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"When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems"
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"Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness."
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"Compassion seems to be the greatest power."
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"All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment."
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"Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy."
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"I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential."
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"Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself."
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"Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering."
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"Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through."
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"So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to serve."
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"I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival."
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"Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival."
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"The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion."
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