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  • Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  • Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

  • Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering.

  • Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

  • You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright

    Song: Fountain Of Sorrow, Album: Late for the Sky, 1974
  • Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

    Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall (1999). “Jane Goodall: 40 years at Gombe : a tribute to four decades of wildlife research, education, and conservation”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang
  • You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

    Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing
  • The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."

    Love   Buddhist   Mean  
  • If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

    Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image
  • In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

  • We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

    Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.101, Shambhala Publications
  • It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

    Family   Mom   Mother  
    Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.10, Open Road Media
  • True love is born from understanding.

  • Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

    "Be Happy Now: Simple Steps for Enjoying Life". Book by Laura Barrette Shannon, p. 96, March 27, 2012.
  • A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.

    Peace   Truth   Real  
    Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.24, Shambhala Publications
  • Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

    "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

  • Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

    "Thich Nhat Hanh on The Right Kind of Power". The Plum Village Interview, plumvillage.org. July 28, 2008.
  • Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

    Wisdom   Book   Love You  
  • Scientists tell us that we have enough technology to save our planet. . . . Yet we don't take advantage of this new technology. . . . The technological has to work hand-in-hand with the spiritual. Our spiritual life is the element that can bring about the energies of peace, calm, brotherhood, understanding, and compassion. Without that, our planet doesn't stand a chance.

    Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

    "Burma's Monks: Already a Success". content.time.com. October 12, 2007.
  • By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

    "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.
  • How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

  • I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

  • If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of suffering, and compassion is the kind of energy that can transform suffering. If suffering is not there, we have no means to cultivate our understanding and our compassion. This is something quite simple to see

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