Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

Helen Keller

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

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.'

John Berger

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Jo Ann Emerson

The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life.

Frank Bruno

People need to have compassion for others.

Henry Ward Beecher

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

Toby Turner

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

Karen Armstrong

And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront

Karen Armstrong

Compassion is not a popular virtue

Karen Armstrong

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Karen Armstrong

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

Karen Armstrong

The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion, and unless you live that out compassionately, selflessly, you didn't understand what the doctrine was saying.

Karen Armstrong

...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others

Karen Armstrong

Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.

Karen Armstrong

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.

Mother Teresa

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

Mother Teresa

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

Mother Teresa

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

Martin Luther

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

Edward de Bono

Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

Eckhart Tolle

Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Henri Nouwen

The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

Henri Nouwen

God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

Henri Nouwen

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Larry Gelbart

I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

Sathya Baba

The heart with compassion is the temple of God.

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.