Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our compass is pointing in the right way and if it continues to point in this way, there should be no reason why we should even discuss (that), ... very unlikely.

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.

Dalai Lama

Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.

Dalai Lama

If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

Dalai Lama

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

Desmond Tutu

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Deepak Chopra

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

Alphonsus Liguori

So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.

Andrea Thompson

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

Anthony Daniels

Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

Thomas Sankara

The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

Rumi

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.

Andre Maurois

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Susanne Bier

I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail.

No-one knows what the soul is.. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.

Ezra Koenig

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

Jack Kemp

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

My compassion has led to my own demise. I guess the solution is that I don't rely on funds until I get them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Knowledge for a writer is like a compass for a sailor.

Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

He was facing a great number of years, regardless. But I think this does show some compassion on the part of the jury.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

William Sloane Coffin

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.