Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Schubert

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Chrissy Teigen

She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding.

George Soros

We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

Friedrich Nietzsche

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

Jim Carrey

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

George Saunders

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

Ian Somerhalder

It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.

Ian Somerhalder

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion

Howard Zinn

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

Hosea Ballou

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

Francis of Assisi

Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.

Mike Mills

I felt someone was revealing hard truths about themselves, revealing uneasy things about themselves, which I always find really generous, ... It makes my life easier when people say, 'Hey! I'm not perfect,' or, 'Hey! I've got flaws.' And he did it with such a sense of humor and such compassion for all those flaws, he was making us all a cushion to trip over and fall on, you know?

Shaul Mofaz

I don't think he has ever suffered from want in his entire life, and so the matter of poverty and compassion is far from his heart and also from his policy,

David Stern

epitomized hard work, dedication and perseverance, and more importantly compassion, kindness and selflessness.

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee

Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

Adlai Stevenson

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

Billy Graham

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

Billy Graham

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

To those who read my book, I hope to share the power of hope and compassion and the tremendous strength and peace that can be found in faith.

Dogen

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Dogen

Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

Jim McDermott

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system, ... But it has to have some compassion.

Michael Sheen

Everyone deserves compassion.

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.

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.

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 ...