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“No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.”

“May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.”

Heart May Given Compassion Imagine My Heart Difficulty Asking Appropriate

Author:Jack Kornfield

“If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.”

Ifs May Ends Compassion Bounds Considering Compass

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.”

May Causes Friendship Compassion Issues Expectations Hatred Disappear Attachment Minors Projection Close Friends

Author:Dalai Lama

“Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.”

People Knows Way May Character Might Would Be Compassion Security Compass

Author:William Stafford

“We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?”

Love Should Heart May Compassion Opinion Childhood Acceptance Meetings Bars Disrespectful Moral Growth

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!”

Ifs May Faces Evil Compassion Enlightenment Blame Fortune Slander

Book:The Way of the Bodhisattva

Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva

“How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?”

“I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.”

May Justice Compassion Virtue Weakness Vices

Author:Ben Jonson

“America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.”

Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including