Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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