Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Harrison

A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.

Rajneesh

Whenever it happens it is never late; whenever it happens it is always early. The happening is so great that you cannot claim it for yourself. You cannot say: `I have earned it.` The happening is so great that it is always through grace and not through effort. It happens through effortlessness. Whenever it happens, you know well that it is through compassion, grace, that it has happened. It has nothing to do with you or your earning

Socrates

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Michael Sheen

Everyone deserves compassion.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wasn't going to say anything about that, Tabitha," he said quietly. "I only wanted to tell you that your compassion for other people overwhelms me.""Oh." She offered him a tenuous smile. "I'm just used to people condemning everything I do."He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles. "I don't condemn you, my lady. I only admire you.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

We don't have to surrender our souls or our compassion.

Monica Lewinsky

Online we have a compassion deficit

Monica Lewinsky

Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it...you can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.

Miranda July

She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.

Mike Murdock

Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.

Maya Angelou

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Matthew Dowd

Democrats have a problem if they go one way and don't emphasize the rule of law and only have compassion. The Republicans have a problem if they only go with the rule of law. There has to be a balance.

Martin Scorsese

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

Max Lucado

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

Max Lucado

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

Max Lucado

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

May Sarton

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

Maynard James Keenan

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

Maya Angelou

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'

Matthieu Ricard

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Matthieu Ricard

If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.

Merle Shain

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

Masiela Lusha

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

Mencius

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

Mencius

The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

Melody Beattie

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

Marie Corelli

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

Michele Bachmann

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

It helped me reinforce what I've learned about compassion. And it's really great to meet him and I'm always going to remember this moment.

Neal Shusterman

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

Neale Donald Walsch

We cannot have peace on Earth until we learn to speak with one voice. That voice must be the voice of reason, the voice of compassion, the voice of love. It is the voice of divinity within us.