Items tagged as 'Compassion'

Items tagged as 'Compassion'

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Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax -- until I tried it myself. Then I realized that they made it only look easy. Even the Berd
There will be no Homeland Security until we realize that the entire planet is our homeland. Every sentient being in the world must feel secure.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look th
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

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