The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.
– Sharon Salzberg
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- Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention. – Bryant McGill
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- Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty. – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
- Each step I take toward him is one more step closer to home. – Ashlee Willis
- Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God’s goal of the impossible. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship. – Ludwig von Mises
- Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism-” a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew. – Sharon Salzberg
- The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion. – Bauvard
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- I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it. – Steven Erikson
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- Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too. – Mandy Hale
- By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang. – Carl Sagan
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- All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky. – Ovid
- Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness. – Billy Graham