"There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow."
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"May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion."
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"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed."
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"Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals."
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"Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness."
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"We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us."
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"Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony."
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"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least."
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"Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness."
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"How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we."
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"And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?"
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"Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion."
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"Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity."
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"Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them."
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"While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary."
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"If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity."
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"Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion."
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"Life is a manifestation of unity."
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"You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions."
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"Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use."
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