| 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. |
Tag Archives: compassion
Gautama Buddha – Compassion and self
 If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
– Gautama Buddha (563 BC-483 BC) |
Laozi / Lao-Tzu – Simplicity, patience, compassion
 Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world. – Laozi / Lao-Tzu (604 BC-531 BC) |
Richard Feynman – The highest forms of understanding
 The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
– Richard Feynman (1918-1988) |
Gautama Buddha – Resolve to be tender, compassionate, sympathetic
| Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.
– Gautama Buddha (563 BC-483 BC) |
Tim Minchin – You cant truly take credit for your successes
| Understanding that you can’t truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate. Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually. |
Maya Angelou – My mission in life
 My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
– Maya Angelou (1928-2014) |
