Causes Quote by Joseph Butler Download Open image “The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.” — Joseph Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Causes Compassion Final Misery Prevent Relieve Then
Compassion starts to breed when you feel the active desire to alleviate the sufferings of others. — Arsenio V Manalo Jr Copy Share Image
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The fundamental question is how to develop and maintain compassion.” — Dalai Lama, The Copy Share Image
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Compassion means "with suffering" and involves entering into the suffering of another in order to lead the way out.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good:… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man. — Big Joe Turner Copy Share Image
This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage – all red, smiling from… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
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