We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

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Peace is the only battle worth waging.

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If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.

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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

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Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

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No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones. — Nelson Mandela

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