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Compassionate Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the…
- Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with…
- One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.
- 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…
- Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe…
- Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are…
- Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.
More Compassionate Quotes
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate. — Rita Mae Brown
- Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be… — Harry Browne
- What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results. — Harry Browne
- How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving… — George Washington Carver
- Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise… — Chanakya