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Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Anchoring in soft mud is dangerous.
Anchor thyself to the rocks of Faith, Compassion, and Service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites,
our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compassion is to be valued more than law.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Forgive with Compassion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Today, I say yes to forgiving.
I commit to being for-giving love
and for-giving compassion in all areas of my life.
- Sheri Rosenthal
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
I am the master of my emotions -
I transform fear to love, anger to compassion,
pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance,
expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth.
You must give some time to your fellow man.
For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.
Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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