![[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion".](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-notion-that-a-belief-in-self-reliance-cannot-coexist-with-a-spirit-of-gener-638914228717295990.jpg)
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compassion condemn fears hate irrational mania men patient
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. Thomas Merton
compassion sick confusion
Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain! Charles Dickens
compassion punishment vanity
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
compassion giving challenges
Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit. Richard G. Scott
compassion issues leader
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now. Dave Davies
compassion earth may
We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music. David R. Brower
compassion sometimes circumstances
Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
compassion tears pieces
Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces. Jane Austen
compassion new-experiences differences
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons. Jane Yolen
selfish maturity years
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other. Carol Shields
self investing juan
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone. Carlos Castaneda
self pitfalls devotion
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. Agnes Martin
self unhappy what-you-love
Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating. Alan Sugar
selfish rose people
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns. Alan Keyes
selfish description relation
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
self rivers mountain
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength. Charlotte Bronte
self giving soul
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
selfish laughing soul
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
generosity forgiving
Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving. David Rakoff
generosity giving
Giving is true loving. Charles Spurgeon
generosity easy harder
It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time. Alan Bleasdale
generosity receiving helping
Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity. Cheryl Richardson
generosity bird bullets
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets. William Shakespeare
generosity deeds taught
God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds. John Greenleaf Whittier
generosity
The generosity of Montanans is inspiring. Brian Schweitzer
generosity creative way
The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved. Charlie Kaufman
generosity laughing feelings
It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness. Bessie Head