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Browsing Quotes With Tag: compassion (6)

  • Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
    there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass,
    the world is too full to talk about.
    Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense.

    Speaker: Rumi
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:20 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: compassion, identity, poetry

  • You know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. “200 dead as Number 3 slams ashore,” is not nearly as interesting a headline as, “Charlie kills 200.” Death is much more satisfying and entertaining if you personalize it.

    Speaker: George Carlin
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:16 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: compassion, death, humor

  • Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

    Speaker: Mohammed Ali
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:51 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: compassion, humanity, service

  • Being rich now means having enough money that you don’t have to encounter anyone who isn’t.

    Speaker: Robert Reich
    Source: Aftershock
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:41 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: compassion, inequality, wealth

  • So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus on the cross. Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity!

    Speaker: Neal A. Maxwell
    Source: Conference Report, Apr. 1978, pp. 13–15; or Ensign, May 1978, pp. 10–11
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 14 Mar 2013 at 8:37 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: compassion, women

  • What air is to the lungs, compassionate listening is to the soul.

    Compassionate Listening:
    The type of listening that you start to feel what they feel
    and see things as they see things.

    Speaker: Hank Smith
    Source: Trust Matters--How to Be Trusted, BYU Ed Week 2012
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:48 PM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
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    Tags: compassion, listening, trust
    Shared By: 2 members; winswmlik, MindMeldMom