Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Matthieu Ricard

If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.

Maya Angelou

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Matthew Dowd

Democrats have a problem if they go one way and don't emphasize the rule of law and only have compassion. The Republicans have a problem if they only go with the rule of law. There has to be a balance.

Jonathan Safran Foer

What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?

Narendra Modi

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it...

Narendra Modi

Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the world was Lord Buddha, the epitome of knowledge, peace and compassion.

Orhan Pamuk

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

Eric Hoffer

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Eric Hoffer

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Ellen Goodman

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me

Tom Rath

Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

Simone Weil

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

Radhanath Swami

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.