COMPASSION

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Last Few Words: Albert Einstein “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ― Albert Einstein tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy 5198 likes Like Bob Marley “One love, one heart, one destiny.” ― Bob Marley tags: bob-marley, compassion, destiny, heart, humanity, inspirational, love 3919 likes Like Steve Maraboli “Dare to Be When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully. When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light. When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it. When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway. When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back. When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some. When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going. When times are tough, dare to be tougher. When love hurts you, dare to love again. When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal. When another is lost, dare to help them find the way. When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand. When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile. When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too. When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best. Dare to be the best you can – At all times, Dare to be!” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free tags: compassion, dare-to-be, gratitude, inspirational, life, motivational, seize-the-day, smile, success 3710 likes Like Tahereh Mafi “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love 3346 likes Like Arthur Schopenhauer “Compassion is the basis of morality.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer tags: compassion, morality, morals 2308 likes Like Anne Frank “No one has ever become poor by giving.” ― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness 2276 likes Like Mother Teresa “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ― Mother Teresa tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing 1976 likes Like Steve Maraboli “How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free tags: action, assumption, change, compassion, inspirational, judging, kindness, life, respect, success 1495 likes Like Milan Kundera “for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being tags: compassion, empathy 1242 likes Like Neil deGrasse Tyson “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson tags: compassion, inspiration, inspirational, knowledge, learning, philosophy, science, values 1158 likes Like Dalai Lama XIV “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind 1156 likes Like John Holmes “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” ― John Holmes tags: charity, compassion, friendship, generosity, helping-others 1145 likes Like Leo Buscaglia “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ― Leo Buscaglia tags: compassion, empathy, inspirational, listening 1100 likes Like Elizabeth Gilbert “In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia tags: charity, compassion, generosity, gratitude, service 1004 likes Like Mahatma Gandhi “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” ― Mahatma Gandhi tags: compassion, enemies, friends, friendship, religion 982 likes Like R.J. Palacio “Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder tags: character, compassion, courage, friendship, honor, humanity, kindness 925 likes Like Emily Dickinson “This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me” ― Emily Dickinson tags: compassion, people, social-anxiety 850 likes Like Sam Levenson “Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.” ― Sam Levenson tags: compassion, inspirational, misattributed-audrey-hepburn 809 likes Like Goldie Hawn “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ” ― Goldie Hawn tags: compassion, depression, flower, growth, illness, kindness, obstacles, perseverance, wisdom 751 likes Like Albert Camus “I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.” ― Albert Camus, The Plague tags: afterlife, compassion, life, religion 719 likes Like Aesop “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” ― Aesop tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness 690 likes Like Dietrich Bonhoeffer “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison tags: compassion, empathy, kindness, suffering, understanding-others 680 likes Like Andrew Boyd “Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” ― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe tags: compassion, destiny, empathy, pain, universe 663 likes Like I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, “I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience tags: be-yourself, change, choices, compassion, greatest-version, happiness, helping, love, relationships, success 633 likes Like Arthur Schopenhauer “The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality 586 likes Like Shannon L. Alder “ You Chose You chose. You chose. You chose. You chose to give away your love. You chose to have a broken heart. You chose to give up. You chose to hang on. You chose to react. You chose to feel insecure. You chose to feel anger. You chose to fight back. You chose to have hope. You chose to be naïve. You chose to ignore your intuition. You chose to ignore advice. You chose to look the other way. You chose to not listen. You chose to be stuck in the past. You chose your perspective. You chose to blame. You chose to be right. You chose your pride. You chose your games. You chose your ego. You chose your paranoia. You chose to compete. You chose your enemies. You chose your consequences. You chose. You chose. You chose. You chose. However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now screaming: Choose to let go. Choose dignity. Choose to forgive yourself. Choose to forgive others. Choose to see your value. Choose to show the world you’re not a victim. Choose to make us proud.” ― Shannon L. Alder tags: accountability, advice, apply, attitude, authentic-self, bad-relationships, breakup-advice, brutal-truth, children, choices, choosing, class, coaching, commonsense, compassion, confidence, consequences, correct-path, daughter-of-god, daughters, dignity, divorce, drama, ego, family, flaws, future, generations, good-advice, good-advice-from-mom, growth, humility, hurt, inspiration, journeys-in-life, learn, life-coach, life-lessons, lost, love, loving-others, marriage, mistakes, mom, moral-pride, morals, motivation, new-beginnings, not-alone, poor-choices, positive-attitude, powerful, psychology, quality, raising-women, real-winning, reclaiming-dignity, reclaiming-your-life, reflection, relationship-advice, relationship-classes, relationships-101, rise-up, self-abuse, self-help, self-respect, sharing-knowledge, silver-lining, spiritual-growth, spiritual-help, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, strength, stubborness, swallowing-pride, teacher, teaching, toxic-relationships, truth, value, values, vulnerability, warrior-women, we-all-make-mistakes, wellness, white-path, wide-awake, wisdom, women-empowerment, worth, your-going-to-be-okay 585 likes Like Daniel Goleman “Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.” ― Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships tags: compassion, empathy, selfishness, social-intelligence 567 likes Like « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 48 49 next » All Quotes | My Quotes | Add A Quote

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