Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Alinsky

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

Toby Turner

How do you make a compass? Uhhh hmmm so if I was a compass how would I make myself?

Russell Simmons

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

Sam Kinison

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

Rumi

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

Rumi

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Susan Sarandon

Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you never thought yourself capable of. And so it stops you from being super-judgmental.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Sharon Salzberg

Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.

Sharon Salzberg

I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

Sharon Salzberg

Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal.

Sharon Salzberg

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

Sharon Salzberg

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

Sharon Salzberg

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others

Sharon Salzberg

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

Sharon Salzberg

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.

Tara Brach

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

Tara Brach

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

Tara Brach

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

Talib Kweli

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Tom Rath

Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

Simone Weil

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

Thomas Merton

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

Thomas Merton

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Steven Erikson

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

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

Victoria Moran

Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet ...

Richard Wagner

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Thomas More

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Rumi

In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love.

Rumi

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.