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“It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are.”

People Heart Sometimes Care Running Easy Hurt Compassion Alive Risk Involved Easier Discovery Enthusiasm Who Cares Get Involved Indignation Open Your Heart Being Hurt

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.”

Writing War Beautiful Desire Language Hurt Compassion Horror Suicide Soldier Iraq Terror Trauma Delicate Bullets Precise Blades Skulls Shattered Iraq War Brian Bombers Turner Suicide Bombers

Author:Andrew Himes

“Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.”

Ifs Way Needs Children Use Past Hurt Deals Compassion Creative Childhood Adults Raised Harm Meaningful Love And Compassion

Book:The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

“God wants to lead you to places you cannot get to without Him, and He does that by the power of His Spirit. He can bring you into the realm of the miraculous-not as a show, but as a demonstration of His love and compassion for the lost, hurting, or needy. Who among us doesn’t want or need that?”

Want Needs Doe Shows Spirit Lost Hurt Compassion Realms His Love Miraculous Demonstration Needy Love And Compassion

Author:Stormie Omartian

“Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.”

Men Trying Done Hurt Justice Compassion Violence Seeing Cry Harm Mistaken Infallible Being Done Being Hurt

Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“The solid truth of the matter is, when you find - if you want to help heal the hurt, if you want to hurt people and - help people in pain, the best way to do so is to call upon the great strength of the country, which is the compassion of our fellow Americans.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.”

People Ifs Feels Suffering Black Hurt Forget Compassion Enemy Practice Tradition African American Neglect

Author:Bell Hooks

“To meet someone who really hurts you is to meet a rare and precious treasure. Hold that person in high esteem, and make full use of the opportunity to eradicate your defects and make progress on the path. If you cannot yet feel love and compassion for those who treat you badly, it is a sign that your mind has not been fully transformed and that you need to keep working on it with increased application.”

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Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“When we get emotionally and spiritually involved in helping a person who is in pain, a compassion enters our heart. It hurts, but the process lifts some of the pain from another.”

Heart Persons Helping Pain Process Hurt Compassion Involved Lifts It Hurts

Book:Spiritual Revival

Source: Spiritual Revival

“Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.”

Ifs Real Body Might Universe Hurt My Own Compassion Emotional Being Hurt Parts Of The Body

Author:Krishna Das

“If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emotional manipulation that you need to do to extend compassion to that being, because that being is a part of you, and if that being hurts, you hurt.”

Ifs Needs Hurt Compassion Feet Emotional Be Good Dialogue Manipulation Toes Being Hurt

Author:Krishna Das

“True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.”