"Often the most loving thing we can do……" — M. Scott Peck
"Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves."
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139 Quotes by M. Scott Peck
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
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It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has…
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and…
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st…
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is…
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
— Karen Armstrong
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
— Francis of Assisi
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
— Sri Aurobindo
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
— Teresa of Avila
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— James M. Barrie
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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