Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

Rush Limbaugh

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

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.

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.

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.

Sri Chinmoy

This divine Compassion is spontaneous Delight. In it there is no feeling of separativity, no feeling that one is superior and the other is inferior. No! It is a feeling of oneness.

Toby Turner

How do you make a compass? Uhhh hmmm so if I was a compass how would I make myself?

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.

Russell Simmons

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Stephenie Meyer

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

Stefan Zweig

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

Victoria Moran

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

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.

Stephen Levine

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Starhawk

Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

Sophie Swetchine

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

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.

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.'

Rajneesh

Whenever it happens it is never late; whenever it happens it is always early. The happening is so great that you cannot claim it for yourself. You cannot say: `I have earned it.` The happening is so great that it is always through grace and not through effort. It happens through effortlessness. Whenever it happens, you know well that it is through compassion, grace, that it has happened. It has nothing to do with you or your earning

Socrates

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Michael Sheen

Everyone deserves compassion.