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Brené Brown Researcher, author, speaker
Compassion

"I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there."

Self Compassion Kindness
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
Compassion

"We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace."

Animal Compassion Circles
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Compassion

"I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice."

Thinking Writing Compassion
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
Compassion

"Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion."

Feelings Compassion Opposites
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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
Compassion

"I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory."

Memories Compassion Drunk
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Aung San Suu Kyi Politician, Activist
Compassion

"It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power."

Men Justice Compassion
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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
Compassion

"Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick house and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body, warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or craving for liquor. At that moment he felt a holy compassion for them all. …The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Heart Memories Compassion
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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
Compassion

"My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them"

Thinking Compassion Determination
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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
Compassion

"Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease."

Fall Fire Compassion
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Wyndham Lewis Artist and Writer
Compassion

"To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic."

Compassion Events Expansion
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Radhanath Swami Spiritual Leader
Compassion

"I traveled around America and then at nineteen, went to Europe and hitchhiked from London to the Himalayas in India. I studied various forms of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and in India, various forms of Buddhism and Hinduism. Eventually, I came to the path of unconditional love and devotion to the one God, who in our tradition we call Krishna. I met my guru and became a swami. This allowed me to share that gift, which I consider to be a very deep universal expression of compassion."

Buddhism Compassion Unconditional Love
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Radhanath Swami Spiritual Leader
Compassion

"If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening."

Hate Compassion Universal Love
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