Eternity:
I am drawn to the wild edge of the ocean of my being
My curiosity unbound, I test the limits
of the limitless and the boundaries of the timeless.
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end which is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have unbounded compassion for myself
at all times and under all circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consistent physical structures can
allow unbounded intuitive clarity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I forgive myself completely
for having created stories of suffering.
I forgive myself for all
my angers, resentments, jealousies,
and all the other emotions of suffering.
I have unbounded compassion for myself
at all times and under all circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I recognize this in my writing process.
A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights.
I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits.
When I set my keys in the place
I, with practice, always set my keys...
I do not lose them.
In many instances an ordered external structure
can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered,
creative and unbounded inner structure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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 purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
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
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
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
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
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
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Chodron
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
The greatness of a nation can be judged
by the way its animals are treated.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
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
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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