Compassion Quotes · Page 102

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

— Allan Bloom

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

— Barry Lopez

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

— Gregory Peck

“Beneath the bleeding hands we feel / The sharp compassion of the healer’s art.”

— Dean Koontz

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

— Charles Spurgeon

“X secretly castigates himself and wonder where his basic decency and compassion are.”

— David Foster Wallace

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

— Glennon Melton

“Mercy lets a man sleep. Memory binds him to the tiller, rowing through grief’s endless stream.”

— Erica M. Goros

“It is my humble intention to compassionately allow everyone and everything, especially my self, to be exactly as we are...”

— Maximus Freeman

Self-compassion-being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure-is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

— Kelly McGonigal

“The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of…

— Marcus J. Borg

Happenings in life depend on your attitude. Stay positive,speak the language of heart with love, compassion and forgiveness.

— Anil Kumar Sinha

If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it…

— Victor Hugo

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past…

— Shannon L. Alder

“When you are appreciating someone intently and deliberately with love and compassion, your need for them to change will disappear.”

— Dash Trembley

When one begins to really feel into the spiritual dimension of their beings, they bump into love. They bump into compassion. They…

— Michael Beckwith

Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more…

— Tony Campolo

“Humans who attend directly to vivid cases [of inequality] are capable of great empathy with inequality losers. They are also capable of…

— Robin Hanson

“That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical…

— Susan Sontag

For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they…

— Martin Luther

“set up an appointment with yourself in the morning, during a busy work schedule, or at night to find a quiet space…

— Sarah Owens

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only…

— Alice Walker

“Naturally, society has an indisputable right to protect itself against arrant subjectivisms, but, in so far as society is itself composed of…

— C.G. Jung

“shine your mercy like the sun, and be gracious as the earth let your kindness come like rain that cares not whom…

— Talib al Habib

“Mission of mercy, he said, straightening up, his voice so cold, he could have owned the patent.”

— Tara Janzen

If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Sharon Salzberg

It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.

— Richard Summerbell

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

— Heinrich Himmler

Still caring about someone when you know you shouldn't. But you do anyways.

— Anonymous

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

— Anonymous

“Women are so caring, kindhearted and soft creatures; I wonder how one could harm or hurt them for any reason.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Instead of you to be at the mercy of whatever they have made you into, rebuild your life into what it should…

— Sunday Adelaja

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

— Mason Cooley

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

— George Gissing

“When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.”

— Na'ama Yehuda

You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.

— Bette Midler

Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.

— Kevin Cook

Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.

— Amit Ray