 | "I
am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
-- Helen
Keller |
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“I
believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the
source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion,
and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas”
-- John
F. Kennedy | 
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"The
person who doesn't fit in with our notions of who is worthy of our love -- the
bag lady at the corner, the strange old man who rides through town on a three-wheel
bike all strung up with flags -- is just the person who, by not fitting into our
patterns, insists that we expand not only our views but also our capacity to love.
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches
no only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so
much."
-- Daphne Rose Kingma
"If
we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the
world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow."
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It
is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and
hope.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
| "I
want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle
and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
-- Abraham Lincoln
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"What
really matters is what you do with what you have."
-- Shirley Lord.
In the long
run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There
is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.
-- John A. MacAulay
"We
make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
-- Norman
MacEswan.
"It
is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
-- Maurice Maeterlinck.
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Change
will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to
be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge
that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.
-- Mairead Corrigan
Maguire |  |
"There
are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself."
-- Moses Maimonides
"Dig
within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up,
if you just dig."
-- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)
"Adapt yourself
to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the
fellow-mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you."
-- Marcus Aurelius
(2nd century A.D.)
"Live
not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow;
make yourself good while life and power are still yours."
-- Marcus Aurelius
(2nd century A.D.)
"Waste
no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one!"
-- Marcus Aurelius
(2nd century A.D.)
"We
have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."
-- Edwin Markham
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None
of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps.
We got here because somebody bent down and helped us.
-- Thurgood
Marshall |
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Love
for other people. I think that’s another very important part of morality, being
genuinely compassionate and concerned about the feelings and well being of other
people, especially those that depend on you directly.
-- George
McGovern
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So, I think that’s
the centerpiece of morality: Don’t lie. But to do that, you have to go a step
further and find out what the truth is. You know, it’s easy to say, “I’ll never
tell a lie.” But if you say, “I’m going to speak the truth,” you’re going to have
to work damn hard to find out what the truth is. The next thing is just plain,
old, simple kindness: to other people, to your family. Love for other people.
I think that’s another very important part of morality, being genuinely compassionate
and concerned about the feelings and well being of other people, especially those
that depend on you directly.
-- George
McGovern
“Send
the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will
have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.”
--
Peter McWilliams
"There
is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone
up."
-- Bernard Meltzer
| "...Why is compassion
not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion,
awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of
any real civilisation, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church,
but belonging to everyone, every child in every school."
-- Yehudi
Menuhin |  |
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"The
whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of
all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in
one another."
-- Thomas
Merton |
"A
person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."
-- Mohammed
Much
violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not
to be shared.
-- Henri Nouwen
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“I
came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing
that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can.
Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then
I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'”
-- Conor
Oberst |  |
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"If
there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being,
let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."
-- William Penn
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There
is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands
and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number
and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.
-- Father Dominique Pire |  |
Be
kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
-- Plato
"In
faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity."
-- Alexander Pope (1733)
"Live
as if everything you do will eventually be known."
-- Hugh Prather
"It
is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man."
-- Publilius Syrus.
(1st century B.C.)
