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Letter "C" » Compassion
«Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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Compassion
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embrace, scope, self-concern, widen, widened, widens
«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.'»
«It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked.»
«For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.»
Author: Paula Cole
| About:
Anger,
Compassion,
Music,
Pain
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Back to, compassion, humble, luck, luck it, on the spot, spot, surface, tender, to that, vehicle
«Compassion is the basis of all morality»
«If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.»
«Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Compassion
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antitoxin, harmless, impulses, poisonous, relatively
«Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Compassion,
Sin
| Keywords:
compassion, condemnation, cure, sins
«For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Compassion,
Faith,
Happiness,
Religion,
Right
| Keywords:
absolutely, atheist, compassionate, exercise, Individual right, individual rights, may not, not absolutely, No problem, okay, radical, religious, remain
«Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people?s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human 'brain' with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human 'heart' with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Civilization,
Compassion,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
civilizations, day care, filling, great care, human brain, Human heart, importance, role, spread, These Days, Western, westerns, with compassion, with great care
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