Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Jane Austen

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Ben Jonson

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Dalai Lama

So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to serve.

Dalai Lama

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

Dalai Lama

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

Dalai Lama

It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.

Rumi

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Jasper Carrott

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be an unhappy number,

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Chris Richards

I'm unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn't execute.

Pat Conroy

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Karen Armstrong

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

George MacDonald

But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

John Coffee

This is not a populist demand for reduced compensation. This is a demand for more accountable compensation that in effect allows investors to relate pay to performance.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Lou Mazzucchelli

This was a strong report. Product demand is strong, the management is good. I'm very pleased with this report.