Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Lucado

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

May Sarton

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

Maynard James Keenan

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

Maya Angelou

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'

Matthieu Ricard

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Matthieu Ricard

If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.

Merle Shain

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

Masiela Lusha

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

Mencius

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

Mencius

The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

Melody Beattie

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

Marie Corelli

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

Michele Bachmann

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

It helped me reinforce what I've learned about compassion. And it's really great to meet him and I'm always going to remember this moment.

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.

Lisa Stone

It is not about sexuality that is important to most people who care, it is what we do for our community and our family, our friends and just human compassion for others that matter in the world we live in daily.

John Selden

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

Larry Gelbart

I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

Sathya Baba

The heart with compassion is the temple of God.

Henry B. Eyring

The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.

Henepola Gunaratana

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Mallory Ortberg

You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.

Eric Hoffer

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Eric Hoffer

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Lupita Nyong'o

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

You can't teach compassion by modeling callousness, and you can't teach respect for the law if you are showing disrespect.

Stephen Levine

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

Rajneesh

As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

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.