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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 Chödrön
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
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
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.
Arthur Jersild
Compassion is not a sentiment but is an ethical principle that requires action.
Mariah Fenton Gladis
Compassion is the key to happiness.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is the foundation of all forms of spiritual practice.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
Corrie ten Boom
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Acceptance is a beautiful thing, but it's also something that I've struggled to master. But I'm learning.
Jhene Aiko
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
Michael J. Fox
The greatest gift you can give yourself is to accept yourself in its entirety.
Unknown
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Albert Ellis
The only way to change the world is to accept it as it is.
Lao Tzu
The greatest gift you can give someone is your acceptance of them.
Unknown
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
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 wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Kahlil Gibran
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
May all beings be happy, may all beings be healthy, may all beings be safe, may all beings live with ease.
Buddha
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development.
Jim Rohn
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Rachel Naomi Remen
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
Wayne Dyer
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
The greatest gift you can give another person is your own happiness.
Esther Hicks
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and positivity.
Debasish Mridha
Positive thinking and kindness go hand in hand.
Unknown
Kindness and positivity can change the world.
Unknown
Positivity and kindness are the keys to a happy life.
Unknown
Be mindful of your thoughts and actions, and always choose kindness and positivity.
Unknown
The world needs more kindness and positivity.
Unknown
Positivity and kindness are contagious. Spread them wherever you go.
Unknown
Choose kindness and positivity, and watch your life transform.
Unknown
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
Pema Chödrön
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
Rumi
The more interconnected we are, the more we thrive.
Henry Mintzberg
We are all in this together and we are all connected.
Gabrielle Bernstein
We are all connected, and when we understand that, we can start to build a kinder world.
Zoe Weil
The interconnectedness of all things is a fundamental principle of nature.
Bryant McGill
We are all connected, and when we embrace that connection, we can change the world.
Jane Goodall
The more we practice mindfulness, the more we realize that everything is interconnected.
Thich Nhat Hanh
We are all connected, not just in our biology, but in our humanity.
Ellen DeGeneres
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.
Sophia Bush
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom
Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.
Unknown
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
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 simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.
Brene 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 key to great stories.
Austin Kleon
Empathy is the antidote to shame.
Brene Brown
Empathy is the gateway; compassion is the path; love is the destination.
Bryant McGill
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem
Empathy is the starting point for a much deeper connection.
Unknown
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with them.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
Rumi
Patience is a key element of success.
Bill Gates
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
Vera Nazarian
Patience is not about waiting, but how we act when things take longer than we expect.
Anonymous
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.
Deepak Chopra
The more you observe your thoughts, the more you become less attached to them and the less likely they are to affect you negatively.
Nathalie Thompson
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).
James Baraz
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein
Mindfulness is the practice of being present, without judgment, in the moment.
Ellen Langer
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life, reaching far beyond the people and places you can see.
Earon Davis
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't).
James Baraz
Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.
Dr. John Kabat-Zinn
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
The most important thing is to have a good heart.
Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
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