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#1

“As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.”
― H. Rider Haggard

tags: humor

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#2

“Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.”
― H. Rider Haggard, She

tags: humor

18 likes

#3

“Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: charity, christian-behavior, compassion, helping-others, love, paraphrased, service

450 likes

#4

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

tags: inspirational

2245 likes

#5

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life

3347 likes

#6

“Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”
― Ray Romano

tags: children, humor, parenting

206 likes

#7

“Kindness, motherfucker, kindness.”
― Don Roff

tags: compassion, funny, inspirational, kindness, lol, motherfucker, random

6 likes

#8

“Christ's version of kindness:

I know you are hurt. I contributed to that. Maybe, I should have said more. Done more. Listened. I am sorry for my part in the situation. I am sorry if I caused you any pain or confused you with my actions or words. How can I help you move on? I want you to have peace in your life. Let's end this by communicating.

The world's perverted version of kindness:

You caused your own pain. You get what you get. Get over it and move on. Maybe, one day you will figure out what happiness really means. By the way, I am not responsible for giving it to you. Nor, do I have to put up with people that don't bring me joy or who I can't trust. I am only responsible for myself. I will pray for you because I am a good Christian.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: being-real, church-members, communicaiton, compassion, ending-pain, fake-members, kindness, lost-people, manners, moving-on, reaching-out, spirituality, ungodly-people

32 likes

#9

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12170 likes

#10

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: bob-dylan, music, success

1665 likes

#11

“I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: authentic, caring, compassion, empath, growth, happiness, humble, inner-being, kindness, leadership, lightworker, simplicity, success, world-peace

6 likes

#12

“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. - Dr Wayne W. Dyer”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

556 likes

#13

“So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.”
― Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

tags: compassion, discipleship, empathy, friendship

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#14

“The typical image of a depressed, lazy and tired person is someone hunched over and inert. Often, the assumption is that if one had more enthusiasm and inspiration, he would then stand up straight and move. In many cases, this equation is backward. But, as with everything related to one’s physicality, balance is the key. An overly erect and rigid posture may convey confidence and power to some, but it also causes a subtle accumulation of tension and rigidity on various levels, including psychological and emotional.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

tags: asian-philosophy, buddhism, cobalt-saffron-retreat, cobaltsaffron, cobaltsaffron-retreat, comparative-religion, compassion, conscience, creativity, curiosity, darrell-calkins, darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron, darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron, darrell-calkins-retreat, darrell-calkins-seminar, depression, emotional-health, evolution, happiness, humor, inspiration, intuition, martial-arts, metaphysics, mysticism, paradigm, physical-health, purpose, quantum-physics, stress-management, taoism, truth, well-being, zen

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#15

“When gorillas smell danger, they run around and call out to the rest of the primates in the jungle to warn them something evil is coming. And when one of their own dies, they mourn for days while beating themselves up in sadness for failing to save that gorilla, even if the cause of death was natural. And when one colony is mourning, their chilling echoes migrate to other colonies — and those neighbors, even if they are territorial rivals, will also grieve with them. When faced with a common danger, rivals turn into allies. And when faced with death, the loss of just one gorilla becomes the loss of the entire jungle.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: colony, common-enemy, compassion, danger, death, echoes, enemies, evil, gorillas, grieve, jungle, loss, migrate, mourning, nature, neighbors, people, primates, relations, rival, rivals, suzy-kassem, sympathy, unity, warning

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#16

“Many people are praying and their prayers go unanswered. Imagine if you decided to step in your role as a god and resolved to answer their prayers. How many prayers would be answered from now on? But no, you also keep your face hidden like other careless gods and keep your ears closed to their clamor.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

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#17

“If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.”
― Nancy Gibbs, The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

tags: compassion, gerald-ford, mercy, politics

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#18

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: angel, being, earth, faith, heaven, hope, human, kindness, later, life, now

190 likes

#19

“Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?

tags: faith, hope, kindness

136 likes

#20

“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”
― Brendan Behan

tags: kindness

122 likes

#21

“I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.”
― Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

tags: fear, kindness, love, reason, respect, sacrifice, suffering, true-love

59 likes

#22

“I’m sick of hearing it. I don’t think it’s right to stand by while innocent people are being tortured. I feel like that’s how most horrible things continue to happen. It’s because other people don’t step in to stop it.”
― Kris Noel, The Serenity Compound

tags: bad-people, compassion, courage, life

10 likes

#23

“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.”
― Herman Melville

tags: christian, courtesy, friend, kindness, pagan

77 likes

#24

“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

tags: agape, brotherly-love, charity, compassion

775 likes

#25

“Don’t we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be… doing that has nothing to do with enabling them or accepting what they do as okay by us. It has nothing to do with encouraging them in their practice of what you or I might feel or believe is wrong vs right.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: bigotry, charity, christianity, friends, friendship, happiness, hate, hatred, homosexuality, judgment, judgmental-people, kindness, love

39 likes

#26

“When you know someone close to you who are quiet or smaller or missing, seek them out, they may need to be found again. It is most beautiful to turn off our ego and feel true empathy for others. Compassion, sympathy, kindness, empathy, selflessness, etc. are the biggest signs of a person with a good soul and a big heart!”
― Angie karan

tags: big-heart, compassion, ego, good-soul, kindness, seeking, selflessness, sympathy, turn-off-your-ego

7 likes

#27

“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: guns, religion

170 likes

#28

“The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: religion

164 likes

#29

“Do you know what it is like,
to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt
you every night,
of all your past mistakes.

Knowing sleep will set it right -
if you were not to wake.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

tags: lang-leav, mistakes, peace, regret, sadness, sleep

336 likes

#30

“Lucy: You learn more when you lose
Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!”
― Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts Treasury

tags: failure, learning, wisdom

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