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1. “Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!”

Camille Paglia

Compassion, Philosophy, Society, Ethics, Feminism

2. “Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.”

Camille Paglia

Social Justice, Compassion, Politics, Economy, Society

3. “Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.”

John D. Rockefeller

Giving, Kindness, Generosity, Compassion, Life

4. “That best portion of a good man’s life – His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”

Andrew Carnegie

Kindness, Love, Humanity, Compassion, Character

5. “I could never hate anyone I knew.”

Charles Lamb

Understanding, Experience, Judgment, Relationships, Compassion

6. “In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.”

Charles Lamb

Humanity, Compassion, Perception, Empathy, Experience

7. “Trample not on the ruins of a man.”

Charles Lamb

Compassion, Respect, Humanity, Dignity, Fallibility

8. “Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.”

Charles Lamb

Charity, Compassion, Giving, Wealth, Judgment

9. “I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.”

Jimmy Carter

Hope, Country, Compassion, Decency, People

10. “Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.”

Jimmy Carter

Church, Preaching, Compassion, Religion, Society

11. “All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.”

Jimmy Carter

Government, Honesty, Compassion, Leadership, Nation

12. “The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.”

Jimmy Carter

Humanity, Unity, Compassion, Society, Fear

13. “To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.”

Jimmy Carter

Humanity, Kindness, Society, Compassion, Morality

14. “You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.”

Ramakrishna

Love, God, Unity, Compassion, Oneness

15. “When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.”

Ramakrishna

Love, God, Attachment, Compassion, Detachment

16. “The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.”

Ramakrishna

Compassion, Kindness, God, Protection, Heart

17. “Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.”

Ramakrishna

Love, Unity, Oneness, Compassion, Humanity

18. “The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Fear, Understanding, Effort, Compassion, Heart

19. “Even if we cannot be completely non-violent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-violence.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Non-violence, Vegetarianism, Compassion, Ethics, Choice

20. “Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Vocation, Compassion, Ethics, Responsibility, Humanity

21. “We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Love, Understanding, Selflessness, Relationships, Compassion

22. “Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Listening, Compassion, Suffering, Anger, Empathy

23. “Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Love, Ignorance, Compassion, Humanity, Understanding

24. “It’s like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Growth, Suffering, Compassion, Understanding, Lotus

25. “I don’t have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Understanding, Renewal, Compassion

26. “Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Listening, Compassion, Suffering, Communication, Understanding

27. “Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Understanding, Compassion, Power, Practice, Buddha

28. “A bodhisattva doesn’t have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Bodhisattva, Awareness, Awakening, Effort, Compassion

29. “In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Smile, Compassion, Change, Awareness, Joy

30. “Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Suffering, Happiness, Acceptance, Understanding, Compassion

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