Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Salzberg

Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.

Tara Brach

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

Tara Brach

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

Tara Brach

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

Talib Kweli

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Tom Rath

Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

Simone Weil

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

Thomas Merton

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

Thomas Merton

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Steven Erikson

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

Steven Erikson

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

Victoria Moran

Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet ...

Richard Wagner

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Thomas More

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Rumi

In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love.

Rumi

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.

Rumi

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

Rumi

Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.

Stephen Covey

There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.

Steven Pinker

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Ricky Williams

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

Richard Davidson

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

Richard Curtis

Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.

Rick Warren

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Rick Warren

The church must always show compassion, always.

Trent Reznor

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

Vince Lombardi

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.

Rue McClanahan

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

Stephen Schwartz

Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.

Sri Chinmoy

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Sri Chinmoy

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.