Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blum

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

Joss Whedon

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

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.

Terry Pratchett

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

Temple Grandin

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

Shunryu Suzuki

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Laura Schlessinger

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

Rowan Williams

Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.

Vita Sackville-West

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

Saul Alinsky

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

Russell Simmons

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

Sam Kinison

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

Rumi

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

Rumi

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Susan Sarandon

Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you never thought yourself capable of. And so it stops you from being super-judgmental.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Sharon Salzberg

Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.

Sharon Salzberg

I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

Sharon Salzberg

Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal.

Sharon Salzberg

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

Sharon Salzberg

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

Sharon Salzberg

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

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.