Key concepts for Compassion ~~~~~~ Stop to help ~~~~~~ Listen carefully ~~~~~~ Identify your responsibility ~~~~~~ Get involved ~~~~~~ Heal hurts
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Compassion vs. indifference "investing whatever is necessary to heal the hurts of others"
Therefore I will: stop to help listen when others want to talk give of my resources to help those in need look for lasting solutions comfort others without regard to differences
"...he saw a person who needed help, and he did what needed to be done"
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"He who feels no compassion will become insane." --Hasidic Proverb
"Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it; do not hammer
it." --Alexander Maclaren
"Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do
our duty as we understand it." --Abraham Lincoln
"Never morning wore to evening, but some heart did break." --Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars
back." --Thomas Sowell
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. --Elie Wiesel
"There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and
compassionate." --Robert Frost
"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment, we rise above ourselves."
--Mason Cooley
"To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own is ever the beginning
of one's real ethical development." --Felix Alder
"If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one
of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large." --William Wilberforce

CHARACTER COUNCIL
of RED RIVER VALLEY
Copyright acknowledgement -- Material on this page is from the book "Achieving True Success" ©2000 IACC, and Character Bulletin Series 3 - No. 47 ©2008 Character Training Institute
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Words of Wisdom
Invest Personally Invest in your coworkers, customers and the community.
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- As a team, sign and send greeting
cards to customers and vendors
- When appropriate, get permission to
use your organization's resources in order to meet a particular need
- Attend memorial services, and offer your
condolences to those dealing with grief
- Visit coworkers in the hospital
- Organize coworkers for a work day at the
home of a needy family or elderly resident
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- Take meals to someone who has just
had a baby
- Send flowers or a potted plant to an ill
coworker
- Offer to care for a couple's children so
that they can have an evening out
- Take your lunch hour, and listen to a
coworker who needs to talk
- Mail someone a get-well card
- Call someone who benefited you and
say, "Thank you."
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