Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shaul Mofaz

I don't think he has ever suffered from want in his entire life, and so the matter of poverty and compassion is far from his heart and also from his policy,

Hillary Clinton

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

Ivo Andric

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

Jack Kemp

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

Jack Kerouac

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

Isabel Allende

We only have what we give.

his compassion for the world's dispossessed is well-known. This contribution will help to ease their (Afghan's) suffering.

Harry Browne

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

Harry Browne

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

Harry Browne

In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.

Jack Kornfield

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

Jack Kornfield

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

Jack Kornfield

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

Jack Kornfield

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

Jack Kornfield

With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.

Jack Kornfield

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

Jack Kornfield

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

It's a good relationship. He is extremely good at securing clientele, and I think that's because of his compassion with them. Then he can handle the press, while I handle the case.

I want to express awareness, support and compassion because people obviously are devastated and traumatized by what has happened," ()

The world saw this tidal wave of disaster and now they're going to see a tidal wave of compassion.

It's obvious that our first reaction was of solidarity and compassion,

Madeleine L'Engle

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

Pankaj Mishra

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

P. C. Cast

True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion

Percy Bysshe Shelley

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

Peter McWilliams

If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion.

Paulo Coelho

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

Prince

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Philip Yancey

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

Mike Pence

The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.