Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

Chogyam Trungpa

Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things

Chogyam Trungpa

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Cheryl Strayed

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Cheri Huber

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

Cheri Huber

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Edith Wharton

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Audrey Hepburn

nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

Audrey Hepburn

I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Camille Paglia

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

Bill Nighy

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

Bernard Goldberg

Journalists love to show their compassion.

Bob Horner

When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.

Biz Stone

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

Betty Smith

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

Bill Gates

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Jane Austen

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Bryant H. McGill

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

Bryant H. McGill

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

Charles Colson

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Eckhart Tolle

When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.

Elie Wiesel

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

Ben Parr

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.

Ben Stein

Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs

Bernie Siegel

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

Jane Goodall

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

Jane Goodall

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Richard G. Scott

Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

Barbara Walters

People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.

Anton Chekhov

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

Diane Ackerman

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.