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Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion. — Amy Chua

Compassion is the way you live your life every day. — Jeffrey A. White

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. — Nadine Gordimer

When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley. — Amit Ray

Compassion has no place on the battlefield... — A.G. Howard

Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms. — Shannon L. Alder

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others. — Deepak Chopra

Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me — Anthony D. Williams

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. — Gautama Buddha

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. — Mignon McLaughlin

You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other. — Shannon L. Alder

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service. — Marianne Williamson

He buried his face against her neck and held on to her healing compassion for just as long as she'd let him. — Julie Miller

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made. — Edward Kennedy

No matter what path you're on in this life, if that path isn't about love, you're on the wrong path. — Laurence Overmire

Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others — Sharon Salzberg

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it. — Melody Beattie

All my life,
Following Care along the dusty road,
Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Human progress has depended on enlarging the circle of compassion. — Carl Safina

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable — Homer

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights. — Liv Ullmann

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice. — William Sloane Coffin

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing. — Dalai Lama

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy. — Vanessa Hudgens

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life. — Shannon L. Alder

The person you think is useless and a nobody today, might be the very person you will need tomorrow. Never look down on anyone. — Bien Sufficient

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive. — Parker J. Palmer

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand. — Flavia Weedn

The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that. — Taylor Stevens

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America. — Henry Cabot Lodge

Rather, spend more on health and education for poor people. This is not forced socialism but voluntary compassion. — Dalai Lama XIV

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race. — Doug Marlette

How far you go in life depends on ... — George Washington Carver

Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again. — Laurence Overmire

If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed. — Maria Theresa

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy — Giovanni Boccaccio

If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether. — Ashley Young

We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings. — Amit Ray

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty. — John H. McWhorter

If you truly want LOVE to enter your Heart, you HAVE to give a DAMN about what's going on around you!! — AainaA-Ridtz

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels. — Holly Holm

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone. — Sharon Salzberg

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let happiness bloom
In the freshness of your mind,
In the gentle wind of your thoughts.
On the ground of kindness and compassion. — Debasish Mridha

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you. — Dalai Lama

When we radiate the warmth of our love-energy, our compassion-energy on the planet, we shine the qualities of our Source! — Michael Beckwith

Anybody Can Hate. Hate is Easy ... Living Side by Side with Compassion, Tolerance and Respect Takes Real Courage. — Jeffrey A. White

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. — Nick Hornby

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion. — Allen West

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own. — Jack Kornfield

An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender. — John Kador

COMPASSION ALERT:
As we enter the Season of Goodwill - Feel the warm glow in your heart by lighting up a smile on someone's face — Kamil Ali

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. — Mark Twain

Peace Begins with Acceptance, Compassion and Respect. — Jeffrey A. White

Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies. — Gary Hopkins

Real compassion is based on reason. Ordinary compassion or love is limited by desire or attachment. — Dalai Lama XIV

Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding. — Bryant McGill

Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us ... — Elie Wiesel

Unless and until you have developed a heart inundated with compassion, do not sit on the seat of judgement. — Sri Chinmoy

Compassion has no place on any battlefield ... magical or otherwise. — A.G. Howard

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map. — Richard Davidson

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit. — Gary Bauer

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice. — Mike DeWine

One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings. — Frederick Lenz

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth. — George Saunders

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. — R.J. Palacio

Romance wasn't fair. Nor was it a game. It was war. And, as on any other battlefield, compassion and mercy had no place there. — A.G. Howard

What I want in my life is compassion
a flow between myself and others
based on mutual giving from the heart. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion. — Louise Hay

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy. — Chogyam Trungpa

I am looking forward to the day when we love all children more than we hate each other and treat everybody with compassion, tolerance and respect. — Jeffrey A. White

Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God - on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion. — Billy Graham

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction. — Laozi

Do not waste your pity on a scamp. — Aesop

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others. — Ronald Reagan

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer. — Francis Collins

Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life. — Sandra Vischer

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside. — Lennox Lewis

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. — Aldous Huxley

19Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean! + — Anonymous

On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. — Audrey Hepburn

Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things — Chogyam Trungpa

Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion. — Lish McBride

Once or twice she'd looked back at him and seen such a look of compassion in his brown eyes it had made her heart flop around like a fish on dry land. — Melanie Dickerson

Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on. — Shannon L. Alder

I live by three simple words: compassion, love and gratitude. We need to act on these three words daily. Doing so will irrevocably change your world. — Julian Pencilliah

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity. — Miguel De Cervantes

A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin - seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance ... — Jack Kornfield

Teaching without talent, compassion and endurance is like an octopus on skates - there will be movement without direction. — Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. — Thomas Sowell

Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own. — Sarah Cross

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. — Richard Wagner

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. — Tara Brach

This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion. — Charles Stross

Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under. — Boris Johnson

Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion. — George W. Bush