Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Anthony de Mello

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Anne Rice

That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.

Anthony Mackie

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

Aloe Blacc

Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.

Albert Schweitzer

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

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

My daughter said, 'we have to do something,' and she called the Red Cross, ... She has a lot of compassion and made me proud.

Ben Jonson

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Earl Nightingale

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

Deepak Chopra

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.

Deepak Chopra

My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

Deepak Chopra

When you expand your awareness, your energy flows freely. You're more flexible, balanced, and creative. You view yourself and the world with more compassion and understanding. You have more energy and are open to new possibilities.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

lead in promotion of spirituality and compassion for humanity.

Many times I'm overwhelmed by the compassion of the city,

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.

Dennis Prager

The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.

Dennis Prager

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

Mr. Kushner said he has great sympathy and compassion for the governor, and his heart goes out to him.

Salman Rushdie

Meanwhile, it seems, the world is suffering from compassion fatigue,

My illusion is dispelled by Your profound words, that You spoke out of compassion towards me, about the supreme secret of the Self.

Boris Johnson

Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

Bill Ferguson

Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.

Thomas Merton

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

We know where our moral compass directs us.

John Gay

We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass that still points to thee.

Antonio Tarver

It's really a slap in the face to all those who have pumped him up and glorified him all these years and that's the media, ... He shows no compassion for the sport - the sport that made him a wealthy man, an icon. Shame on him.

It's unrealistic to think every player could come. We're very pleased with the support we've gotten from the players, their overall compassion for the city. Many have contributed financially.

The nourishment of our souls comes from the smiles of others.

Camilo Cela

For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.

I hope they know that the people on our street sincerely feel so much compassion for them.

Tim Russert

there was a perception created of incompetence, some even said callousness and he needs to replace it with compassion.