{"id":5539,"date":"2014-11-04T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T04:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2014-11-10T23:08:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T04:08:07","slug":"dozen-quotes-of-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5539","title":{"rendered":"Dozen Quotes of Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u201cNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.\u201d &#8211; Aesop<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.\u201d \u2013 Plato<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.\u201d &#8211; Thomas Aquinas<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCompassion is the basis of morality.\u201d &#8211; Arthur Schopenhauer<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.\u201d &#8211; Dalai Lama<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.\u201d &#8211; Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCompassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.\u201d &#8211; Thomas Merton<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThere is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.\u201d &#8211; John Holmes<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.\u201d &#8211; John Bunyan<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Compassion begins at home, and it is not how much we do but how much love we put in that action. Do not think that love has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.&#8221; &#8211; Mother Teresa<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.\u201d &#8211; Maya Angelou<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.\u201d &#8211; Gautama Buddha<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(ed. \u2013 By George Journal is now on Twitter and, amongst other subject matter, is tweeting inspirational and motivational quotes each morning. Join us <a title=\"By George on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByGeorgeJournal\" target=\"_blank\">@ByGeorgeJournal on Twitter<\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.\u201d &#8211; Aesop \u201cBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.\u201d \u2013 Plato \u201cI would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.\u201d &#8211; Thomas Aquinas \u201cCompassion is the basis of morality.\u201d &#8211; Arthur Schopenhauer \u201cIf you want others to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}