March 2009 Prayer, Light and Healing Requests

[I Have A Dream]

I'd like to open this month's prayer, light and healing requests thread with some quotations in reference to empathy.

Sophocles:
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Thich Nhat Hanh:
Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

Bonnie Jean Wasmund:
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Scott Adams:
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Peter Marshall:
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Mother Teresa:
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

Robert Louis Stevenson:
So long as we love we serve;/ So long as we are loved by others,/ I would almost say that we are indispensable;/ And no one is useless while they have a friend.

Mary Martin:
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Shakespeare:
Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs,/ Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,/ Their pangs of love, with other incident throes/ That nature’s fragile vessel doth sustain/ In life’s uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

Kahlil Gibran:
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Homer:
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Euripides:
When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Andre Gide:
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

Meryl Streep:
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Barack Obama:
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Finally, here's a wonderful example of empathy in action:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8563337&mesg_id=8563337



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