{"quotes":[{"text":"To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","answer","ask","begin","better","betterment","compassion","compassionate","condition","conversations","converse","empathy","friend","friendship","good","hear","improvement","judge","judgement","judgment","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kind","kindness","know","knowledge","kojouri","listen","listener","love","love","lover","mindful","mindfulness","ourselves","quote","quotes","reply","reserve","respond","self","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","sincerely"],"id":1026,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["charity","compassion","compassion","compassionate","compassionate-heart","kindness","kindness","love","loving"],"id":12063,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversity","challenges","compassion","compassionate","gratitude","grief","guru","hardship","humble","humility","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","matshona-dhliwayo","overcome","overcomer","overcoming","pain","sage","strength","strength","strong","thankful","trouble"],"id":17436,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Empowered Women 101: Forgive yourself for having chosen to expose yourself to people who don't care about your feelings and help others to do the same. Enjoy life! It is as simple as changing your focus or perspective when you start thinking about people from the past who hurt your feelings. Eventually, you will forget about those types of people because your time and attention will be taken up by more positive things/people/events/activities etc. When you understand how much time is wasted trying to make people see you, understand you, respect you, value you, like you or agree with you...Life becomes a pointless negative fight for validation that will drain your happiness. You are worth more than the indifference, inattention or crumbs people throw you. You are a queen that demands respect and God will bring the right person into your life to make you forget why you ever wasted your time on nothing important.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bravery","compassionate","empowered-women","integrity","loving","powerful","quality","queens","stand-up-for-yourself","stayingpositiveu-com","strong","warrior-women"],"id":19641,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","compassion","compassionate","human-beings","humanism","humanist","humanity","humanity-and-society","inspirational","kindness","life","love-and-kindness","philosophy","truth"],"id":25214,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","compassion","compassionate","deep","dictum","dictums","dustbin","dustbins","eat","eating","epigram","epigrams","food","garbage","garbage-can","garbage-cans","gnome","gnomes","hobo","hobos","homeless","humor","humour","insightful","leftovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","meal","meals","philanthropist","philanthropists","philanthropy","pity","poor","portion","poverty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","rich","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sincere","sincerity","sympathetic","sympathy","thought-provoking","thoughtful","trash","trash-can","trash-cans","truly"],"id":26095,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his patients and the human dramas they confront. In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, he said that most young people seem to be protected for a time by an imaginary membrane that shields them from horror. They walk in it every day but are hardly aware of its presence. As the immune system protects the human body from the unseen threat of harmful bacteria, so this mythical membrane guards them from life-threatening situations. Not every young person has this protection, of course, because children do die of cancer, congenital heart problems, and other disorders. But most of them are shielded—and don’t realize it. Then, as years roll by, one day it happens. Without warning, the membrane tears, and horror seeps into a person’s life or into the life of a loved one. It is at this moment that an unexpected theological crisis presents itself.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["and","aware","bacteria","be","beautiful","body","book","by","cancer","children","compassionate","confront","congenital-heart-problems","crisis","descriptions","die","disorders","do","doctor-richard-selzer","don-t","dramas","every","every-day","from","guards","happens","hardly","harmful","his","horror","human","imaginary","immune-system","into","it","its","itself","letters-to-a-young-doctor","life","life-threatening","loved-one","membrane","moment","most","mythical","not","of","one-day","other","patients","people","person","person-s","presence","presents","protected","protection","protects","realize","roll","seem","seeps","shields","situations","surgeon","tears","the","them","theological","they","threat","time","to","unexpected","unseen","walk","warning","without","years","young"],"id":28622,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["compassion","compassion","compassionate","compassionate-heart","compassionate-love","love","love","suffering-life","suffering-of-humanity","suffering","tolerate"],"id":31196,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["awaken","awareness","compassionate","dreamer","empath","insight","know-yourself","mindfulness","quotes","about-life","to-live-by","soul","spiritual-awakening","truth"],"id":31719,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["compassion","compassion","compassionate","goodness","goodness","light","murat-ildan","turkish-writers"],"id":37688,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":89,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}