“One can be educated yet a filthy savage. True sign of education lies in selflessness.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“If you set a goal to make someone’s day every day, I think you will be surprised at how much better your days—and your life—will be. By choosing to help others and make them smile, you will end up being the one with the biggest smile. Giving really is better than getting.”
Source: Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values
“Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.”
Source: Losing Faith
“The journey of working on yourself gives you the compassion for everybody. We only treat failures as moments of practice when we love what we are doing to begin with. This is why large businesses are created, the person never wanted to give up.”
Source: The Decision To Have World Peace
“For once in your life be a total idiot, for the right cause, for there is no righter cause than the cause of humanity.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Throughout my nursing career, I noticed that during times of great need, suffering, and even death; the most powerful medication I ever administered was a heartfelt dose of love and compassion.”
“In embracing diversity, we do not diminish the uniqueness of the individual; rather, in embracing differences, of and between individuals, we celebrate diversity of each and all.”
Source: Critical Masses: Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Decides
“I believe that evil is directly proportional to idiocy. I believe that the territory you roamed in anguish before you disappeared is ruled by idiots. It isn’t true that criminals are masterminds. It takes a vast amount of stupidity to assemble the parts of such grotesque, absurd, and cruel machinery. Pure brutality disguised as a masterplan. Small people, with small minds, who don’t understand the abyss of the other. They lack the language or tools for it. Empathy and compassion require a clear mind. Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, changing your skin, adopting a new face: these are all acts of genuine intelligence.”
Source: The Twilight Zone
“Not passion but compassion.
Com—means "with."
What kind of withness would that be?”
Source: Glass, Irony and God