Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Kornfield

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

Jack Kornfield

With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.

Jack Kornfield

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

Jack Kornfield

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

It's a good relationship. He is extremely good at securing clientele, and I think that's because of his compassion with them. Then he can handle the press, while I handle the case.

I want to express awareness, support and compassion because people obviously are devastated and traumatized by what has happened," ()

The world saw this tidal wave of disaster and now they're going to see a tidal wave of compassion.

It's obvious that our first reaction was of solidarity and compassion,

Madeleine L'Engle

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

Pankaj Mishra

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

P. C. Cast

True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion

Percy Bysshe Shelley

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

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

Peter McWilliams

If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion.

Paulo Coelho

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

Prince

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Philip Yancey

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

Mike Pence

The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

Mother Teresa

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

Mother Teresa

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

Jim Ramstad

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Jim Rohn

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

Joe Arpaio

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

Louise Hay

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who "did all that stuff to you" were just as frightened and scared as you are.

Leo Tolstoy

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

Leo Tolstoy

'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

Leonard Bernstein

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.

Joseph Campbell

The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

Joseph Campbell

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

Mother Teresa

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