![[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".](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-notion-that-a-belief-in-self-reliance-cannot-coexist-with-a-spirit-of-gener.jpg)
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compassion help human life purpose serve
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
compassion facing great number
He was facing a great number of years, regardless. But I think this does show some compassion on the part of the jury. Patrick Renn
compassion maps committed
I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map. Richard Davidson
compassion two great-love
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both. Richard Rohr
compassion cartoon four
I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons. William Hogarth
compassion people empathy
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. William Blum
compassion curiosity judgment
I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear. Tracee Ellis Ross
compassion justice people
The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion. Saul Alinsky
compassion unity life-is
Life is a manifestation of unity. Said Nursi
self
It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass Peter Roebuck
self forgotten truest
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self. Richard Paul Evans
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
self grace denial
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion. Richard Baxter
self errors intuition
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested. Ryan Hall
self long age
Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now. Russell Hoban
self ideas people
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. Russell Brand
generosity great help strength willing
There is great strength and generosity from so many willing to help those in need.
generosity library use
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. Samuel Smiles
generosity leader great-leader
Every great leader has a generosity gene. Jack Welch
generosity forgiving
Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving. David Rakoff
generosity effort may
While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem. Andy Stanley
generosity return expecting
Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return. Simon Sinek
generosity favour receiving
In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours. Thucydides
generosity trying grows
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. Rumi
generosity giving joy
The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life. Thomas Kinkade