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Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and compassion.
Unknown
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.
Pema Chödrön
Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.
Russell Simmons
The only way to change the world is through acts of kindness and compassion.
Unknown
Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
Dalai Lama
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 human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
Brad Meltzer
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
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 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.
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
Isabel Allende
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 about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
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 bridge that connects us to other people.
Unknown
Empathy is the key that unlocks the door to understanding and connection.
Unknown
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Heinz Kohut
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Kofi Annan
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling
We are not separate from each other, and when we realize this, it becomes natural to treat others with compassion and kindness.
Tara Brach
We are all in this together and we are going to get through it together.
Kamala Harris
We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
Nhat Hanh
We are only as blind as we want to be.
Maya Angelou
We are only as free as we are united.
J.R.R. Tolkien
We are all human beings, and we all have insecurities, but it's about being honest with those insecurities and not hiding them.
Nick Jonas
We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same.
C. JoyBell C.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi
Love is the only force capable of making an enemy into a friend.
Nelson Mandela
Love is the answer to the problems of the world.
John Lennon
Love is the only force capable of uniting the divided peoples of the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Jim Butcher
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 only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
Barbara Kingsolver
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
Leonard I. Sweet
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and understanding.
Debasish Mridha
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown
The greatest wisdom is kindness.
Author Unknown
We rise by lifting others.
Robert Ingersoll
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and be free from the past.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Barbara De Angelis
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack Obama
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Coretta Scott King
We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
The only way to change the world is to change the story.
Michael Margolis
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
Jonathan Haidt
We are not separate from the world, and we are not separate from each other. We are a part of the environment of planet earth, and we are a part of the community of human beings.
Jock Sturges
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Max Lucado
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the strength that enables us to step forward even when we don't see the whole staircase.
Anonymous
Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.
Duane Chapman
Faith is not about everything turning out okay. Faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out.
Anonymous
Faith is the light that guides you through the darkness.
Anonymous
Faith is the foundation of all hope, and without faith, there is no hope.
Anonymous
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