Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ― Dalai Lama

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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. ― Alan Watts

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Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction. — Dalai Lama

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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

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To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

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Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

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People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

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