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“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”

Martha Washington
 
 
 
 
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

Aesop
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”

Rose Lane
 
 
 
 
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

Albert Ellis
 
 
 
 
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”

Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

Buddha
 
 
 
 
“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”

Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

Maxim Gorky
 
 
 
 
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”

Leo Tolstoy
 
 
 
 
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
 
 
 
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

Epicurus
 
 
 
 
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”

William Feather
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”

John Henry Jowett
 
 
 
 
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”

Confucius
 
 
 
 
“If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”

Proverb
 
 
 
 
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”

Andy Rooney
 
 
 
 
“Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”

Unknown

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“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”

Seneca
 
 
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

Albert Einstein
 
 
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

Bertrand Russell
 
 
“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 compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
 
 
“Happiness is a myth we seek,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and murks.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights.”

Kahlil Gibran
 
 
“Happiness is a state of activity.”

Aristotle
 
 
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

Confucius
 
 
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

Arthur Schopenhauer
 
 
“Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.
Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

Charles Caleb Colton
 
 
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 
 
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”

Friedrich Schiller
 
 
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”

Winston Churchill
 
 
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”

Andy Rooney
 
 
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

James Oppenheim
 
 
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

Douglas Adams
 
 
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

Benjamin Disraeli
 
 
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

Albert Schweitzer
 
 
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

Heraclitus
 
 
“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
”
Herman Hesse

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“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

Confucius
 
 
 
 
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”

Anthony de Mello
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”

“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”

Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

Aristotle
 
 
 
 
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”

Seneca
 
 
 
 
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”

Marcel Pagnol
 
 
 
 
“If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”

Joseph Addison
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”

Epictetus
 
 
 
 
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
”
L.M. Montgomery
 
 
 
 
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

James M. Barrie
 
 
 
 
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”

Dr. Robert Anthony
 
 
 
 
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”

Aesop
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is acceptance.”

Unknown

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“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’

If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.

If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.

If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”

Chinese Proverb
 
 
 
 
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

Ashley Montagu
 
 
 
 
“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”

Lucille Ball
 
 
 
 
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

Epictetus
 
 
 
 
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

Frederick Keonig
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

Eskimo Proverb
 
 
 
 
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”

Mary Stuart
 
 
 
 
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”

Seneca
 
 
 
 
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Robert A. Heinlein
 
 
 
 
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”

Dennis Waitley
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”

Cesare Pavese
 
 
 
 
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Marthe Troly-Curtin
 
 
 
 
“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon”

Winnie the Pooh
 
 
 
 
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Herman Cain
 
 
 
 
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

Stacey Charter
 
 
 
 
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

Dale Carnegie

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“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”

Martha Graham
 
 
 
 
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”

Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”

Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.”

Joni Eareckson Tada
 
 
 
 
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”

Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”

Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.”

Harvey Mackay
 
 
 
 
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

Eskimo Proverb
 
 
 
 
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”

Og Mandino
 
 
 
 
“I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation. I may be, for I have also learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.”

Martha Washington
 
 
 
 
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

Peter Marshall
 
 
 
 
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Marthe Troly-Curtin
 
 
 
 
“If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”

Joseph Addison
 
 
 
 
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”

Aaron Lauritsen
 
 
 
 
“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.”

Irving Berlin
 
 
 
 
“If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.”

Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Mark Twain

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“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”

Epictetus
 
 
 
 
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”

“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

Bertrand Russell
 
 
 
 
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

Anaïs Nin
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
C.G. Jung
 
 
 
 
“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”

Stephen R. Covey
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

L.M. Montgomery
 
 
 
 
“It’s not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.”

Kristin Armstrong
 
 
 
 
“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”

Audrey Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.”

Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”

Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”

Don Miguel Ruiz
 
 
 
 
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

Jim Rohn
 
 
 
 
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”

Viggo Mortensen
 
 
 
 
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”

David Allen
 
 
 
 
“If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.”

Irvin D. Yalom

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“If we don’t have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective.”

Wayne Thiebaud
 
 
 
 
“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.”

John Lubbock
 
 
 
 
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”

Alphonse Karr
 
 
 
 
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”’

Soren Kierkegaard
 
 
 
 
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”

George Eliot
 
 
 
 
“It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.”

Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”

Ansel Adams
 
 
 
 
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

Abraham Maslow
 
 
 
 
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

Neil Armstrong
 
 
 
 
“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

Dorothea Lange
 
 
 
 
“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”
Hans Margolius
“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”

Henry Miller
 
 
 
 
“Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every
man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counterparts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.”

Kristen Zambucka

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“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
Shannon L. Alder
 
 
 
 
“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.”
Lucille Ball
 
 
 
 
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”
Jim Rohn
 
 
 
 
“Always do your best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
 
 
 
 
“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.”
Barbara Bush
 
 
 
 
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell
 
 
 
 
“There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.”
Sabaa Tahir
 
 
 
 
“First, imagine taking the potentially regret – producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
Kurt Vonnegut
 
 
 
 
“If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”
Bill Clinton
 
 
 
 
“I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.”
Publilius Syrus
 
 
 
 
“Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.”
William O’Rourke
 
 
 
 
“If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.”
Jim Carrey
 
 
 
 
“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.”
Steve Maraboli
 
 
 
 
“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery
 
 
 
 
“Remorse is the poison of life.”
Charlotte Bronte
 
 
 
 
“A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.”
Charles Goodyear
 
 
 
 
“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”
Swami Sivananda
 
 
 
 
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
John Barrymore
 
 
 
 
“I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don’t regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can’t have it all.”
Lauren Bacall

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“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

Anaïs Nin
 
 
 
 
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
“The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.”

Chris Pine
 
 
 
 
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.”

Sterling K. Brown
 
 
 
 
“Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.”

Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
“Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.”

Robert Morgan
 
 
 
 
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.”

Claudia Gray
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.”

Jen Sincero
 
 
 
 
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett
 
 
 
 
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

Confucious
 
 
 
 
“A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.”

Allen Klein
 
 
 
 
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”

Lao Tzu

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“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
George Washington Carver
 
 
 
 
“Compassion, empathy, and love are the real pillars we need to build within ourselves to become human.”
Loknath
 
 
 
 
“There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
 
 
 
 
“Have compassion and empathy in your heart. Many people are suffering deep emotional anguish beneath the surface of their lives, and smile even as they hurt inside.”
Jim Palmer
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
Pema Chödrön
 
 
 
 
“In Asian languages, the word for ‘mind’ and the word for ‘heart’ are the same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
 
 
 
 
“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
Elvis Presley
 
 
 
 
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”
Sam Levenson
 
 
 
 
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
Joseph Fort Newton
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.”
Glennon Doyle Melton
 
 
 
 
“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”
Frederick Buechner
 
 
 
 
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”
Rumi
 
 
 
 
“In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It’s when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it’s almost incomprehensible.”
Sarah McBride
 
 
 
 
“True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”
Daniel Goleman
 
 
 
 
“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
Dean Koontz
 
 
 
 
“Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
 
 
 
 
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo Buscaglia