"The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being"

-- Dalai Lama

#Compassion Quotes #Essence Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.”
“Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.”
“If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.”
“God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.”
“Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.”
“To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.”
“All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.”
“Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.”

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