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When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.


Jose Mujica
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I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
Frank Auerbach
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer
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The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
Nicholas Mosley
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
Gillian Anderson
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Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
Joan Halifax
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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
John McDonald
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The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.


Frans de Waal
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
Thabo Mbeki
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The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.


Henry Cloud
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True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.


Daniel Goleman
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.


Aldous Huxley
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No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.


Alan Watts
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We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.


Justin Sane
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.


Emma Goldman
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson
I do hate Trump. I find him to be a vile human being - one that lies so often, so casually, and with such confidence, that fact-checkers actually cannot keep up. It is one thing after another, daily.
Chrissy Teigen
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.


Victor Hugo
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
Will Durant
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If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you'll be feeling what they're feeling. If you're separated, it's not a hard thing to do at all.
Eve Ensler
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