Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Salzberg

Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others

Sharon Salzberg

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

Sharon Salzberg

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.

Tara Brach

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

Tara Brach

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

Tara Brach

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

Talib Kweli

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Rumi

In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love.

Rumi

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.

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.

Thomas Merton

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

Thomas Merton

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Steven Erikson

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

Steven Erikson

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

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.'

Sydney J. Harris

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

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.

Joss Whedon

Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

Ramakrishna

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.

Radhanath Swami

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

Radhanath Swami

Lord's love manifests in this world as compasssion.

Radhanath Swami

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

Radhanath Swami

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

Radhanath Swami

Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

Radhanath Swami

Compassion is an essential element of love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

Liam Neeson

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share,

Lennox Lewis

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

David Stern

epitomized hard work, dedication and perseverance, and more importantly compassion, kindness and selflessness.