T. S. Eliot Quotes, Art Quotes, Compassion Quotes

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

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I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

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Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.

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For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

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For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

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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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When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

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We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet.

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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

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Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

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Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

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Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

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Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

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

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The Greek people have gone through some very difficult times and there's still a hard road ahead, but despite those hardships, Greece has continued to be a reliable ally, has shown true compassion to fellow human beings in need. It's an example of the Greek character.

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The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

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Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

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