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compassion
«The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Life,
Solidarity
| Keywords:
compassion, serve
«Most people have come to prefer certain of life?s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.»
Author: Rachel Naomi Remen
| Keywords:
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«Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Social service
| Keywords:
compassion, generous, humanities, humanity, In Humanity, in service, kind, renew, renewing, renews, service, speech, Teach, triple, tripled, triples
«Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
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«The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
Buddha, compassion, ego, foundation, number one, persistence, practicing, teachings, the Buddha, The Foundation, wipe, wiped out, wipes, wipe out, wiping
«Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
circles, compassion, creatures, embrace, prison, task, widen, widened, widening, widens
«Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
beauty, circle, circling, compassion, creatures, embrace, free, in a circle, ITS, living, task, The Creatures, whole, widen, widened, widening, widens
«The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
atom, chemist, compassion, compound, compounding, compounds, elements, extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, forgiveness, longing, patience, regret, surprise