Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wasn't going to say anything about that, Tabitha," he said quietly. "I only wanted to tell you that your compassion for other people overwhelms me.""Oh." She offered him a tenuous smile. "I'm just used to people condemning everything I do."He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles. "I don't condemn you, my lady. I only admire you.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.

Marie Corelli

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

Michele Bachmann

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

Max Lucado

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

Max Lucado

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

Max Lucado

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

May Sarton

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

Maynard James Keenan

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

Maya Angelou

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'

Matthieu Ricard

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Matthieu Ricard

If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.

Maya Angelou

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Matthew Dowd

Democrats have a problem if they go one way and don't emphasize the rule of law and only have compassion. The Republicans have a problem if they only go with the rule of law. There has to be a balance.

Lisa Stone

It is not about sexuality that is important to most people who care, it is what we do for our community and our family, our friends and just human compassion for others that matter in the world we live in daily.

John Selden

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

Martin Luther

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

Martin Scorsese

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

We don't have to surrender our souls or our compassion.

Monica Lewinsky

Online we have a compassion deficit

Monica Lewinsky

Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it...you can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.

Miranda July

She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.

Mike Murdock

Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.

Marianne Williamson

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

Merle Shain

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

Masiela Lusha

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

Mencius

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

Mencius

The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

Melody Beattie

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

Lucinda Williams

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

Liv Ullmann

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

Margaret Oliphant

imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ...