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Date: 10/05/2008
Keywords: "quotes on compassion"

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_compassion.html

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.

http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquotes/a/Kindness9.htm

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.

http://www.writespirit.net/inspirational_quotes/quotes_about_compassion/?searchterm=compassion

Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

http://thinkexist.com/search/searchQuotation.asp?search=compassion

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others.

http://compassion.org

Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies.

http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Compassion/1/index.html

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

http://ikedaquotes.org/contents/buddhist_quotes/compassion.html

It is often enough for a person in anguish simply to know that there is someone thinking of them, sharing in their pain and plight, even though that person may be unable to actually help.

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_about/compassion

Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty. ... I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

http://www.coolquotes.com/compassion.html

True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/compassion.html

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.

http://dailyinspiringquotes.net/compassion.htm

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

http://www.answers.com/topic/compassion

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

http://www.experiencefestival.com/compassion

Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.

http://www.just-quotes.com/compassion_quotes.html

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

http://www.vsb.bc.ca/districtinfo/organization/ls/compassion/quotes.htm

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

http://learningtogive.org/search/quotes/Search_Subject_Form.asp (type in the word "compassion" when prompted)

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/compassion.html

Sometimes we think that to develop an open heart, to be truly loving and compassionate, means that we need to be passive, to allow others to abuse us, to smile and let anyone do what they want with us.

http://quotegarden.com (type in the word "compassion" at the prompt to search Quote Garden).

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"

http://www.matildesmission.org/PetChins/Quotes.htm

Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth.

http://forbetterlife.org/be-inspired/quotes (type in the word "compassion" at the prompt to search for quotes).

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.