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“To be compassionate or empathetic is a gift from God. It doesn’t change or switches on and off when it’s convenient. Thank you Lord Jesus for all the gifts you have given us.”

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“It is fashionable to present hate and contempt for humanity as the exasperation and despair of compassion, but in that case rebellion should be against existence itself. When a man who is horrified by the basic evil of the world and his own existence, and who sees no God to rebel against, takes revenge on his fellow beings, he is a coward and a hypocrite. Perhaps the ugly, sordid, and horrifying things of which there is no end have always been produced by hypocritical and cowardly rebellion against existence, but that is not the rebellion of the social anarchist.”

Social Existence Compassion Hatred Hypocrisy Rebellion Anarchy Contempt Cowardice

Book:Social Anarchism

Source: Social Anarchism

“All your body requires of you is that you turn toward it with kindness and compassion, with nonjudgment and plain-vanilla acceptance of all your contradictory emotions, beliefs, and longings.”

Compassion Confidence Judgement Self Acceptance

Book:Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Source: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

“Two things that will never work together: compassion and judgment. You gonna have to let one of them go.”

Compassion Judgment Judgement

Author:Darnell Lamont Walker

“You know that if you are graced with creative and compassionate and warm awareness, you are going to have and incredible life. You are going to have sufferings as well, but you will always return to that place of warmth and fire within yourself.”

Suffering Compassion Awareness

Author:John O'Donohue

“Compassion certainly seems to be wasted on you, sir!’ she said tartly. ‘Yes, of course it is. Besides, I like you, and I shan’t if you pity me.”

Compassion

Book:Black Sheep

Source: Black Sheep

“That never even occurred to me, that he had feelings.”

Feelings Humanity Compassion

Book:The Music of What Happens

Source: The Music of What Happens

“She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: the feel deeply, to care profoundly.”

Wisdom Compassion

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“If you want others to be happy practice compassion; and if you want yourself to be happy practice compassion”

Happiness Compassion

Book:The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

Source: The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

“He was thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well?”

Compassion Empathy Charity

Author:Victor Hugo

“The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.—”

Truth Relationships Relationship Therapy Sociopath Toxic People Sociopathy Sociopaths Quotes On Relationships Abusive Partner

Book:Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People

Source: Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People

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