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Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha. -- Nhat Hanh
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. -- Nhat Hanh
In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools. -- Mark Foley
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it. -- Barbara Jordan
When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much. -- Jack Kornfield
Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love. -- Jane Goodall
By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us? -- Debbie Ford
It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate. -- Nhat Hanh
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering. -- Zig Ziglar
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon. -- Thomas Merton
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. -- Erma Bombeck
When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding. -- Gavin Hood
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. -- Paul D. Boyer
Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness. -- Goldie Hawn
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides. -- Kyan Douglas
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now. -- Dave Davies
There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself. -- Mike White
Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.' -- Greg Boyle
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment. -- Craig T. Nelson
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles. -- Geoff Hoon
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. -- Susan Vreeland
For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community. -- Alex Steffen
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. -- Joseph Fiennes
Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness -- Amit Abraham
Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. -- Frank Portman
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion. -- Francis Schaeffer
For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery. -- Anthony Mackie
Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding. -- Gautama Buddha
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. -- R. Scott Bakker
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. -- Richard P. Feynman
I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion. -- Emmanuelle Bercot
Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others. -- Deepak Chopra
She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding. -- Chrissy Teigen
Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding. -- Isobelle Carmody
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion. -- Socrates
The deletion of logic is through....LoveAcceptanceForgiveness Compassion Understanding Faith in the unknownPresent Moment Living Conscious Breathing -- Matthew Donnelly
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless. -- Shannon L. Alder
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. -- Dalai Lama
In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love. -- Amit Ray
Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding. -- Deepak Chopra
One of Buddhism's main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness. -- Goldie Hawn
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. -- Dalai Lama
Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. -- Aleister Crowley
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides -- Kyan Douglas
Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion. -- Bryant McGill
Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion. -- Bryant McGill
As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding. -- Bryant McGill
I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action. -- Hazel Hawke
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women. -- Stephen Gaskin
If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world. -- Nhat Hanh
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness. -- Thomas S. Monson
Actions are most important in life: act with love, kindness, understanding, and compassion toward others that they may bear witness to your belief(s). -- Ken Poirot
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding. -- Wil Wheaton
Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation. Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and meditation, understanding and awareness. -- Rajneesh
Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me. -- Catherine Marshall
Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful. -- Joy Bryant
I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president. -- Hillary Clinton
You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession. -- Satish Kumar
Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding. -- Jasinda Wilder
Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening leads to compassion,Compassion to nobility,Nobility to heavenliness,Heavenliness to TAO. TAO endures. Your body dies.There is no danger. -- Lao Tzu

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