Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Karen Armstrong

And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront

Karen Armstrong

Compassion is not a popular virtue

Karen Armstrong

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Karen Armstrong

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

Karen Armstrong

The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion, and unless you live that out compassionately, selflessly, you didn't understand what the doctrine was saying.

Karen Armstrong

...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others

Karen Armstrong

Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.

Karen Armstrong

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Joseph Butler

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

Leonard Cohen

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

John Kenneth Galbraith

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.

Loretta Lynch

Our most effective response to terror and to hatred is compassion to unity, and it's love.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

Malcolm Forbes

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

Malachy McCourt

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

Major Owens

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Mahatma Gandhi

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

Joy Bryant

Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

Paul Theroux

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Haruki Murakami

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.

Gustave Flaubert

My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.

Greg Boyle

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

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.

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.

Maya Angelou

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Matthew Dowd

Democrats have a problem if they go one way and don't emphasize the rule of law and only have compassion. The Republicans have a problem if they only go with the rule of law. There has to be a balance.

Karl Marx

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.