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~ One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion ~ ~ I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics ~ ~ Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable ~ ~ I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honourable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. ~ ~ Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself ~ ~ I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water ~ ~ As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope ~ ~ You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening ~ ~ Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men ~ ~ Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives ~ ~ Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours.Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now ~ ~ It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. ~ ~ Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. ~ ~ It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ~ ~ Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ~ ~ The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. ~ ~ It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace. ~ ~ Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. ~ ~ The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion. ~ ~ The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no
match with compassion. ~ ~ It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until
he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace. ~ ~ Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty. ~ ~ By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. ~ ~ Want oś compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity. ~ ~ Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. ~ ~ Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ~ ~ It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. ~ ~ Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still. ~ ~ World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us. ~ ~ If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech. ~ |
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