Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

Rumi

Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.

Stephen Covey

There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.

Steven Pinker

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Ricky Williams

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

Richard Davidson

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

Richard Curtis

Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.

Rick Warren

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Rick Warren

The church must always show compassion, always.

Trent Reznor

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

Vince Lombardi

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.

Rue McClanahan

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

Stephen Schwartz

Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.

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.

W. H. Auden

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

William Cowper

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

Wayne Dyer

Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

Wyndham Lewis

To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.

William Penn

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.