Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sathya Baba

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.

It's a good relationship. He is extremely good at securing clientele, and I think that's because of his compassion with them. Then he can handle the press, while I handle the case.

It's obvious that our first reaction was of solidarity and compassion,

Davey Havok

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.

Condoleezza Rice

For the United States, supporting international development is more than just an expression of our compassion. It is a vital investment in the free, prosperous, and peaceful international order that fundamentally serves our national interest.

It helped me reinforce what I've learned about compassion. And it's really great to meet him and I'm always going to remember this moment.

his compassion for the world's dispossessed is well-known. This contribution will help to ease their (Afghan's) suffering.

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.

Jack Kerouac

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

Isabel Allende

We only have what we give.

He's very strategic, has a lot of compassion for children, and we just love him,

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.

Jack Kornfield

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

Jack Kornfield

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

Jack Kornfield

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

Jack Kornfield

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

Jack Kornfield

With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.

Jack Kornfield

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

Jack Kornfield

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Ivo Andric

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

Harry Browne

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

Harry Browne

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

Harry Browne

In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.

Everett Dirksen

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion

Jane Yolen

In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.

Sydney Smith

A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a Curate!!!

Gary L. Francione

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Jennifer Beals

Compassion takes imagination.

Jennifer Beals

[About compassion] You can have the 'golden rule' do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

Glenn Reynolds

[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".

George Saunders

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.