Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Koontz

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Daniel Goleman

Compassion begins with attention.

Daniel Goleman

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

Bob Dylan

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Bob Dylan

If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.

Bruce Friedrich

Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against cruelty. There is a lot of suffering in the world, but how much suffering can be addressed with literally no time or effort on our part? We can just stop supporting it, by making different choices.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Brigham Young

The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

Brennan Manning

What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.

Artur Davis

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that ‘the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.’ We cannot gauge the worth of another soul any more than we can measure the span of the universe.

Elizabeth Berkley

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed ....

Todd Akin

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

Alex Steffen

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Aleister Crowley

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

Albert Einstein

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

Aldous Huxley

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Ashton Kutcher

Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.

Sharon Salzberg

We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.

Aberjhani

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

Aberjhani

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

Andrew Natsios

No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

Allan Bloom

The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.

Alyssa Milano

I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.

Allen West

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

A. J. Jacobs

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

Adam Kinzinger

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.