Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Carr

Isn’t it time you gave yourself a healthy dose of self-love? The fact is, you deserve it. You are a magnificent, radiant being. You are divine. And you are awesome. The sooner you start embracing that and treating yourself accordingly, the sooner your life will begin to unfold with compassion, purpose, ease, health, and vitality.

Kim Delaney

I would say I have compassion.

Kim Harrison

A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.

J. Michael Straczynski

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Spend your life lifting people up, not putting them down.

Gary L. Francione

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Jennifer Beals

Compassion takes imagination.

Jennifer Beals

[About compassion] You can have the 'golden rule' do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

Glenn Reynolds

[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion".

Francis Schaeffer

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

Ian Mcewan

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality

Mike Mills

I felt someone was revealing hard truths about themselves, revealing uneasy things about themselves, which I always find really generous, ... It makes my life easier when people say, 'Hey! I'm not perfect,' or, 'Hey! I've got flaws.' And he did it with such a sense of humor and such compassion for all those flaws, he was making us all a cushion to trip over and fall on, you know?

Shaul Mofaz

I don't think he has ever suffered from want in his entire life, and so the matter of poverty and compassion is far from his heart and also from his policy,

Matt Blunt

I am moved by the compassion of Missourians,

Hubert H. Humphrey

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

Honore de Balzac

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

Honore de Balzac

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

He's very strategic, has a lot of compassion for children, and we just love him,

Neal Shusterman

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

Neale Donald Walsch

We cannot have peace on Earth until we learn to speak with one voice. That voice must be the voice of reason, the voice of compassion, the voice of love. It is the voice of divinity within us.

Morarji Desai

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.

Milarepa

In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of others' property; what one thus storeth formeth but provisions for one's enemies... I wash off human scandal by devotion true; and by my zeal, I satisfy the Deities. By compassion, I subdue the demons; all blame I scatter to the wind, and upward turn my face.

Kevin Rudd

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

Ellen Goodman

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me

Henri Nouwen

The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

Henri Nouwen

God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

Henri Nouwen

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Henry Ward Beecher

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.