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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Tenzin Gyatso
— Tenzin Gyatso
14th Dalai Lama
As quoted in Meditations for Living In Balance: Daily Solutions for People Who Do Too Much (2000) by Anne Wilson Schaef, p. 11.

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