A. J. Jacobs Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Years Quotes

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

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The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

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Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.

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Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

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ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.

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Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

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Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

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If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

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A state has the right to prohibit the killing of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.

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If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.

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Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

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Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."

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Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

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He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

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The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.

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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

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Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Heaven Quotes

'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Compassion Quotes

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

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