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#1

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: customer-service, knowledge

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#2

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa

tags: inspiration, love, medicine, poverty, spirituality, uncaring

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#3

“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”
― Brian Weiss, Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love

tags: relationships, spirituality

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#4

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: inspirational, life-lesson, spirituality

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#5

“The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.”
― Gautama Buddha

tags: buddha, buddhism, life, living, religion, spirituality

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#6

“Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.”
― Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

tags: christianity, eastern-orthodoxy, humility, inspirational, spirituality, suffering

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#7

“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”
― Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind

tags: buddhism, dharma, enlightenment, mind, spirituality, zen

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#8

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: adversity, beauty, empathy, people, understanding

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#9

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

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#10

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others

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#11

“To perceive is to suffer.”
― Aristotle

tags: empathy, life, suffer, understanding

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#12

“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.”
― Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

tags: compassion, empathy, selfishness, social-intelligence

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#13

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: empathy, honesty, self-awareness

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#14

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: empathy, wisdom

573 likes

#15

“I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: empathy, religion, understanding

428 likes

#16

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: empathy, political-advice, politics, talking, thinking

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#17

“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”
― Steve Martin

tags: criticize, empathy, funny, humor

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#18

“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”
― Roger Ebert

tags: civilization, empathy

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#19

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: alone, comfort, communication, community, community-service, compassion, empathy, encourage, encouragement, give, giving, help, helping-others, helping-out, kindness, letting-them-in, lonelyness, lost, love, missions, novels, reaching-out, selflessness, service, share, sharing, stories, tears-together, transparency, vulnerability

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#20

“Patience and empathy are anger's mortal enemies.”
― Gary Rudz

tags: anger, empathy, patience

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#21

“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: dalai-lama, happiness, harm-reduction

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#22

“The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: dalai-lama, hero

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#23

“In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.”
― Dalai Lama

tags: dalai-lama, human-values, inner-peace, meaning-of-life

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#24

“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message: that is love, compassion and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: dalai-lama

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#25

“The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

tags: anxiety, dalai-lama, happiness, honesty

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#26

“The problem is that our world and our education remain focused exclusively on external, materialistic values. We are not concerned enough with inner values. Those who grow up with this kind of education live in a materialistic life and eventually the whole society becomes materialistic. But this culture is not sufficient to tackle our human problems. The real problem is here," the Dalai Lama said, pointed to his head.

The Archbishop tapped his chest with his fingers to emphasize the heart as well.

"And here," the Dalai Lama echoed. "Mind and heart..”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

tags: buddism, christianity, dalai-lama, desmond-tutu, joy

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#27

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. And be kinder than is necessary.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: dalai-lama, kind, kindness

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#28

“Uno de los problemas que las personas parecen experimentar en el proceso de renovación propia es el de imaginar que necesitan apartar o reemplazar lo que únicamente deben reorganizar, e imaginar que sólo necesitan reorganizar lo que verdaderamente deben apartar o reemplazar.”
― Gautama Buda, Dhammapada

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#29

“Más grande que la conquista en batalla de mil veces mil hombres es la conquista de uno mismo.”
― Buda

tags: frases

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#30

“No desperdicies tu vida tratando de convertirte en alguien más. No desperdicies tu vida tratando de alcanzar tus expectativas de desempeño. No desperdicies tu vida imitando a otros.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buda en Mezclilla

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