Key concepts
for Compassion
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Stop to help
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Listen carefully
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Identify your
responsibility
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Get involved
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Heal hurts
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
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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
Words of Wisdom
Invest Personally
Invest in your coworkers, customers and the community.
  • 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
  • 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."