#compassion

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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When you are at your lowest God speaks the loudest. ↗

— Joanne Wilson-Edwards

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Give your weakness to one who helps. ↗

— Rumi

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The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. Ahimsa Parmo Dharmah- Non-injury is the highest religion ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

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Kindness, motherfucker, kindness. ↗

— Don Roff

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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

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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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