Dalai Lama Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Compassion Quotes

There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

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Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

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See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

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

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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.

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Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

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There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

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How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

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

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Return animosity with virtue.

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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

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Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.

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Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

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universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

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It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

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To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

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It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

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