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Quotes About Compassion

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.
~ Gautama Buddha
Let your Teacher be Love itself.
~ Rumi
The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
~ Anne Michaels
Loneliness is the teacher of giving.
~ Hyemeyohsts Storm
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
~ Temple Grandin
Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.
~ Robert Muller
The teacher you need is the person you're living with.
~ Byron Katie
My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...
~ Malala Yousafzai
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.
~ Ram Dass
In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.
~ Joko Beck
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.
~ Mother Teresa
Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.
~ Joseph Pearce
Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.
~ Mao Zedong
Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.
~ Chris Parnell
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
~ Elie Wiesel
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
~ Evelyn Underhill
Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
~ Pema Chodron
The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.
~ Laozi
I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.
~ Lloyd Kaufman