Bob Marley - Quotes

 One love, one heart, one destiny. 

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George Carlin - Quotes

 If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase. 

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Alyssa Milano - Quotes

 Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get. 

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Scream - Quotes

 Principal Himbry:
So. Two of your fellow students, just savagely murdered, and this is the way that you show your compassion and sensitivity, huh? Let me tell you something. [pause]
Principal Himbry:
You're both expelled. Get out!
Expelled Teen #1:
Aw, come on, Mr. Himbry, it was just a joke!
Expelled Teen #2:
That is not fair!
Principal Himbry:
You're absolutely right. It is not fair. Fairness would be to rip your insides out and hang you from a tree so we can expose you for the heartless, desensitized little shits that you are!
 

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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Quotes

 Queen Amidala:
[speaking to Chancellor Palpatine] It is clear to me now that the Republic no longer functions. I pray you will bring sanity and compassion back to the Senate.
 

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Michael J. Fox - Quotes

 And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors segued into the jerkiness of dyskinesias. Somewhere in the contortions of making a point, my left arm detached the microphone clip from my jacket lapel. With no fuss and hardly a break in conversation or eye contact, she calmly leaned over and refastened it. Neither of us commented on it, but it was such an empathetic gesture, so far from anything patronizing or pitying, a simple kindness that allowed me the dignity to carry on making a point more important than the superficiality of my physical circumstance...



...One thing was abundantly clear though, whether or not she was able to forget how much she liked me: with that single act of consideration, she made it abundantly clear how much she loved her father. 

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Meet Joe Black - Quotes

 Joe Black:
Are you threatening me?
William Parrish:
Yeah, I certainly hope so. Yeah. I loved Susan from the moment she was born, and I love her now and every minute in between. And what I dream of is a man who will discover her, and that she will discover a man who will love her, who is worthy of her, who is of this world, of this time, and has the grace, compassion and fortitude to walk beside her as she makes her way through this beautiful thing called life.
 

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Brennan Manning - Quotes

 To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action. 

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Caged Hearts - Quotes

 George Delvin:
Get rid of your pity and compassion for the guilty!
 

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One Hour Fantasy Girl - Quotes

 Chi Trang:
We create the world we want to live in. [Chi hands a laminated photo of the Mandala of Compassion to Brandi, who studies it]
Chi Trang:
Do you believe you can? [pause]
Chi Trang:
I've got bills to pay, don't you? Let's make some money.
Brandi:
[under her breath] Okay.
 

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose - Quotes

 Ethan Thomas:
So, the judge thinks we should offer your client a new plea agreement. Apparently she thinks the community would be better served without this trial.
Erin Bruner:
How do you feel about it, personally?
Ethan Thomas:
My job is to represent the interest of the people, make an effort to be objective.
Erin Bruner:
Hm. I ask because I know you're a Churchgoer. Now you're sent to prosecute a man of God.
Ethan Thomas:
Your priest broke the law and a young girl is dead. If he's a man of God then personally I think he's even more subject to the laws of moral behavior and punishment. If it were up to me he'd get no deal at all.
Erin Bruner:
What about forgiveness and compassion? Isn't that part of your Creed or does that just get in the way of your work?
Ethan Thomas:
If you have compassion for your client, counselor, you'll persuade him to accept this: Charges reduced to reckless endangerment, 12 months in a county jail, reducible to 6 plus probation if he can stay out of trouble. Somehow I expect he can manage that, but please understand me... if he refuses I will seek the maximum.
 

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The Ungodly - Quotes

 Mickey Gravatski:
Remember when I asked you if you could stop killing? And you said that if the seeds that were buried in darkness were never plant...
James Lemac:
...were never planted, that I might be able to capture the innocence that I never had.
Mickey Gravatski:
Yeah. I wondered, who planted those seeds?
James Lemac:
Hmm
Mickey Gravatski:
She took you down there and left you there, huh?
James Lemac:
Who? What are you talking about?
Mickey Gravatski:
Did you take me down to that cellar to justify what you do?
James Lemac:
Not everything is for your fuckin' benefit, Mick.
Mickey Gravatski:
Right. ya know it just seems like...
James Lemac:
It seems like what? What? What you think I'm killin' my mother?
Mickey Gravatski:
Yeah. It's obvious. I mean in your mind you think you are. But in reality you're killing innocent women.
James Lemac:
Look do me a favor, all right? Remove those eight women from the equation, what do ya got?
Mickey Gravatski:
Wait, how do you remove eight women laying in pools of their own blood, with their eyes taken out?
James Lemac:
Am I beneath compassion?
Mickey Gravatski:
What? What compassion did you have?
James Lemac:
Look I'm just asking you. Just try to remove them from the equation. If you remove them from the equation...
Mickey Gravatski:
It's not an equation! It's not an equation, it's life! It's body identifications. It's funerals. It's families torn apart. It's moms taking sleeping pills, praying to God that when they wake up their daughters are still alive.
James Lemac:
Ya know what's confusing you? You see parts of me in yourself, and that makes me human.
Mickey Gravatski:
You're fuckin' nuts.
James Lemac:
No, I'm not nuts. But you also see yourself in me. The potential we all have.
Mickey Gravatski:
"Potential." Potential is not action, action is what defines us.
James Lemac:
You gotta ask yourself one question. You gotta ask yourself if you still wanna find the human behind the monster. Because if you don't, this whole documentary is a waste. Come on, ya hungry?
Mickey Gravatski:
Sh-yeah, I haven't had an appetite since I met you.
 

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Elton John - Quotes

 I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead. 

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Brennan Manning - Quotes

 [The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.

What is indiscriminate compassion? 'Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for the rose to say,  

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Fyodor Dostoevsky - Quotes

 Be near your brothers. Not just one, but both of them. 

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American Cyborg: Steel Warrior - Quotes

 Austin:
Imagine a machine feeling compassion for humans.
 

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Plato - Quotes

 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. 

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Shirley Chisholm - Quotes

 When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. 

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Rosa Luxemburg - Quotes

 What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball 

Tags: africa   africans   antisemitism   compassion   empathy   europeans   internationalism   jews   plantations   racism     
J.R.R. Tolkien - Quotes

 Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. 

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Goldie Hawn - Quotes

 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.  

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Albert Schweitzer - Quotes

 Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not, himself, find peace. 

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- Quotes

 As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

h/t wordsmith.org 

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Frederick Buechner - Quotes

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

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Robert Baden-Powell - Quotes

 The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. 

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Mother Teresa - Quotes

 I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. 

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Terry Pratchett - Quotes

 You know what?' said Vimes aloud. 'This is going to be the world's first democratically killed dragon. One man, one stab.'

Then you've got to stop them. You can't let them kill it!' said Lady Ramkin.

Vimes blinked at her.

Pardon?' he said.

It's wounded!'

Lady, that was the intention, wasn't it? Anyway, it's only stunned,' said Vimes.

I mean you can't let them kill it like this,' said Lady Ramkin insistently. 'Poor thing!'

What do you want to do, then?' demanded Vimes, his temper unravelling. 'Give it a strengthening dose of tar oil and a nice comfy basket in front of the stove?'

It's butchery!'

Suits me fine!'

But it's a dragon! It's just doing what a dragon does! It never would have come here if people had left it alone!'

Vimes thought: it was about to eat her, and she can still think like this. He hesitated. Perhaps that did give you the right to an opinion... 

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Charles Dickens - Quotes

 As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead.

The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and affection he had never known; as a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or even the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes call up sudden dim remembrances of scenes that never were, in this life; which vanish like a breath; and which some brief memory of a happier existence, long gone by, would seem to have awakened, for no voluntary exertion of the mind can ever recall them. 

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Robert Fanney - Quotes

 If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart. 

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Noah Levine - Quotes

 Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. 

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Horace Mann - Quotes

 Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. 

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Pythagoras - Quotes

 For as long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. 

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Mark Twain - Quotes

 Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact the man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. 

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Abraham Verghese - Quotes

 God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace. 

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Mary Anne Radmacher - Quotes

 As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. 

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George Washington Carver - Quotes

 How far you go in life depends on your being

tender with the young, compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the

weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will

have been all of these. 

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Brennan Manning - Quotes

 Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps. 

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Rai Aren - Quotes

 I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being. 

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Albert Camus - Quotes

 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. 

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Rai Aren - Quotes

 Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us... 

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Daniel Goleman - Quotes

 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. 

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Brennan Manning - Quotes

 Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...

Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness. 

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Albert Schweitzer - Quotes

 Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. 

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Thomas Merton - Quotes

 Pardon all runners,

All speechless, alien winds,

All mad waters.



Pardon their impulses,

Their wild attitudes,

Their young flights, their reticence.



When a message has no clothes on

How can it be spoken. 

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Marshall B. Rosenberg - Quotes

 You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.  

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Robin McKinley - Quotes

 Oh, why does compassion weaken us?'



It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him. 

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Isaac Asimov - Quotes

 It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned. 

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Anthony De Mello - Quotes

 These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. 

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Rick Bragg - Quotes

 Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. (from  

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Albert Einstein - Quotes

 Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. 

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John Connolly - Quotes

 The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how lucky or unlucky you are, they keep suffering. And if you can do something about that, then you do it, and you do it without whining or waving your own fuckin' cross for the world to see. You do it because it's the right thing to do. 

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Jack Kerouac - Quotes

 One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. 

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Albert Camus - Quotes

 It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. 

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Albert Einstein - Quotes

 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. 

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Thomas Merton - Quotes

 Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon. 

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Arthur Schopenhauer - Quotes

 Compassion is the basis of morality. 

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Francis Of Assisi - Quotes

 If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. 

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Mother Teresa - Quotes

 If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.  

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Brennan Manning - Quotes

 The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.



Donald Gray expresses this:  

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- Quotes

 As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitutde, but compassion holding its breath. 

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