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“Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth, awareness and the cultivation of compassion, and the realization that the extension of love to ourselves and others is the glue that holds the universe together. Forgiveness...is not a set of behaviors, but an attitude.”

“Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.”

Humans Spiritual Motivation Spirituality Games Names Animal Compassion Creativity Survival Curiosity Unconditional Love Irrelevant Unconditional Human Animal Spiritual Awareness Spiritual Beings

Author:Peter Shepherd

“To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.”

Thinking Humans God Emotion Mistake Compassion Stupid Emotional Terrible Infinity Compassionate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Have compassion for your humanity and your flaws. You're human and you're going to make mistakes. Look at yourself through the eyes of a loving parent.”

Humans Looks Eye Humanity Parent Mistake Compassion Making Mistakes Flaws Through The Eyes Look At Yourself Loving Parents

Book:Solemate

Source: Solemate

“A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.”

Humans Home Quality Compassion Creativity Connections Human Qualities

Author:David W. Orr

“We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop warm-heartedness early on in order to create a healthier society. I don't mean we need to change the whole system, just improve it. We need to encourage an understanding that inner peace comes from relying on human values like, love, compassion, tolerance and honesty, and that peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.”

“Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.”

Humans Two Existence Compassion Human Existence Pillars Inhuman

Book:Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists

Source: Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists

“How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.”

People Needs Humans Children Important Different Facts Asks Human Beings Answers Compassion Accepting Teach Laughing Equal Experiments Classroom Important Questions

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?”

Humans Nature Interesting Compassion Curiosity Complexity Hopeless Conformity Comforting Fascination Solace

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.”

Inspirational Humans Dream Spirit Understanding Compassion Computer Tools Machines Realization Sparks Magnificent Our Dreams Computer Technology

Author:Lou Gerstner