Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

lead in promotion of spirituality and compassion for humanity.

Many times I'm overwhelmed by the compassion of the city,

Andre Maurois

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Mr. Kushner said he has great sympathy and compassion for the governor, and his heart goes out to him.

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.

Dennis Prager

The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.

Dennis Prager

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

Ben Jonson

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Earl Nightingale

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

Deepak Chopra

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.

Deepak Chopra

My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

Deepak Chopra

When you expand your awareness, your energy flows freely. You're more flexible, balanced, and creative. You view yourself and the world with more compassion and understanding. You have more energy and are open to new possibilities.

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

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.

Sharon Salzberg

We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.

Todd Akin

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

Alan Cohen

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

Alyssa Sutherland

When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.

We were so impressed with him, with his sincerity, his compassion and especially his passion for health care.

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.

E. F. Schumacher

To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

Charles Dickens

Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!

Charles Dickens

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

Alan Perlis

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Alan Paton

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.