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• Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

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  The reality is that organised religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.

  Elton John

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• Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

  Joan Halifax

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• I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.

  Alana Stewart

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• We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don’t know what to be, how to be.

  Iyanla Vanzant

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• America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

  David Wilkerson

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• This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.

  Geraldo Rivera

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• To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

  Geraldo Rivera

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• There’s something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.

  Gedde Watanabe

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• To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

  Samuel Richardson

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• I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

  Rita Mae Brown

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• A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

  William J. Bennett

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• Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you’re raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

  Ed Bradley

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• In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

  Nathan Deal

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• They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

  Patricia Ireland

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