Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Beck

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

Marianne Williamson

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

Christopher Darden

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Christina Baldwin

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Chris Matthews

Pope John Paul II spoke with a lot of clarity and consistency. But he always spoke with immense compassion. He's the one who said the best way to love somebody is to tell them the truth. So, he did that well.

George Saunders

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

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.

Edward de Bono

Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

Eckhart Tolle

Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Terry Pratchett

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

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.

Sri Chinmoy

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Sri Chinmoy

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

Sri Chinmoy

This divine Compassion is spontaneous Delight. In it there is no feeling of separativity, no feeling that one is superior and the other is inferior. No! It is a feeling of oneness.

Roger Tory Peterson

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

Rush Limbaugh

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Rajneesh

As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

Robert Wagner

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

William Sloane Coffin

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Walter Savage Landor

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

Walter Savage Landor

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

Woody Allen

One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.

William Winwood Reade

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

William Wordsworth

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

William Nicholson

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

William McNamara

Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.

Willem Dafoe

Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.