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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Eric Zorn
Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.
Brené Brown
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it.
Derick Thompson
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Unknown
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
R.J. Palacio
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and compassion.
Debasish Mridha
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
Pema Chödrön
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
The greatest courage is to love and be loved in return.
Unknown
Love is an act of courage, not of fear.
Paolo Coelho
Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.
Russell Simmons
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development.
Jim Rohn
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins
Hope is the anchor of the soul.
Unknown
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Aristotle
Hope is the thing that stays with you when everything else is gone.
Barbara Kingsolver
Hope is the light in the darkness, the spark that ignites the fire of possibility.
Unknown
Hope is the heartbeat of the soul.
Michelle Horst
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.
Arthur Jersild
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil Gibran
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.
Dalai Lama
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Generosity is not just about giving money. It's about giving time, attention, energy, and kindness. It's about giving the best of yourself to others.
Unknown
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding.
Anonymous
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only way to do it is to do it, and you do it with your whole self.
Maya Angelou
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.
Pema Chödrön
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.
Arthur Jersild
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
Lou Holtz
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
Joyce Meyer
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Robert Jordan
It's not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open.
C. JoyBell C.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'
Jim Rohn
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The only way to do good work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Jack Kornfield
Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer
Self-compassion is the greatest gift you can give yourself.
Kristin Neff
Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Wilfred Peterson
Self-compassion is the key to a happy and fulfilling life.
Neha Arora
Self-compassion is the foundation of a healthy self.
Unknown
Self-compassion is the practice of meeting ourselves in the same way we would meet a good friend.
Unknown
Self-compassion is the first step toward compassion for others.
Unknown
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Kobe Bryant
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan
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