Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashton Kutcher

Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.

Mahdi Bray

We're not trying to prove anything, other than what our faith requires us to do. What goes with our faith is to help others, to respond and show compassion when people need it, and I'm glad we can do it.

Adam Kinzinger

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Alex Steffen

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Aleister Crowley

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

Albert Einstein

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

Aldous Huxley

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Aberjhani

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

Aberjhani

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

A. J. Jacobs

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

Todd Akin

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

My sense is that since we have been there before, we have more compassion and understanding than maybe a lot of people would because we've had that experience,

One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

Salman Rushdie

Meanwhile, it seems, the world is suffering from compassion fatigue,

My illusion is dispelled by Your profound words, that You spoke out of compassion towards me, about the supreme secret of the Self.

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

My daughter said, 'we have to do something,' and she called the Red Cross, ... She has a lot of compassion and made me proud.

Jane Austen

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Jane Yolen

In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.

Susanne Bier

I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail.

Carlos Mencia

I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse tomove after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them torelocate? Their house have wheels.

I have come to a greater compassion for people who suffer. Why is this happening? I just want to put the question out there so people will have more compassion.

Bryant H. McGill

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

Bryant H. McGill

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

Charles Colson

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Artur Davis

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Eckhart Tolle

When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.

Elie Wiesel

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

Dwight L. Moody

His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.