Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Murphy

They have a lot of wisdom they can pass onto the students. It teaches (the students) a lot about compassion. For the seniors . . . it helps them stay young.

Camilo Cela

For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.

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.

Russell Simmons

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

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.

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.

Mother Teresa

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

Pema Chodron

we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.

Pema Chodron

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

Pema Chodron

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

Pema Chodron

Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.

Pema Chodron

Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.

Pema Chodron

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

Pema Chodron

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

Pema Chodron

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

Pema Chodron

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

Peter Coyote

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

Temple Grandin

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

Shunryu Suzuki

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Laura Schlessinger

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

Stephen Levine

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Starhawk

Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

Sophie Swetchine

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

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.