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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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — The Dalai Lama

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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.

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There is no better compass than compassion. ― Amanda Gorman

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Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life. ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

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Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, “Awe shit, they’re up. – Dwayne Johnson

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My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. – Cary Grant

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Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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