"One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens."
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"Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know."
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"Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."
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"Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think weought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other peoplethink we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directlywith compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat andheartache, no punishment."
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"we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world."
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"I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there."
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"Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion."
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"To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing."
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"Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion."
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"I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble."
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"I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if I had never been wounded or if I had never been betrayed or I had never been harmed. I don't think I would be as good a person."
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"If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound."
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"We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the stars."
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"Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you."
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"A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer."
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"That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all."
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"I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better."
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"Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner."
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"I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice."
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"True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly."
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