“And yet we cannot define as skillful killing one's fellow citizens, betraying one's friends, and showing no loyalty, mercy, or moral obligation.… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes… — Bokar Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“When it comes to relationships, empaths truly shine. This is because it is not the face, body or personality of a person… — Mateo Sol Copy Share Image
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
You must show respect and compassion towards the other musicians, and at the same time try to guide things along. I think… — Vinnie Colaiuta Copy Share Image
How can we condemn those who are truly blinded by evil? We can't. We shouldn't. How do we bring about conversion of… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Adversity is what illuminates quagmires, but all that really matters is destiny.We cannot be blinded by present circumstances which roar like Goliath… — Trinity Tinashe Masunungure Copy Share Image
As the mother of six, Karen Santorum knows the power of stories to shape and mold the nature of our children. In… — Janet Parshall Copy Share Image
“We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Compassion has to become a discipline. It's something that you do. It's no good thinking that you agree with compassion or not,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
“Life's greatest philosophy is not handed down in stoic texts and dusty tomes, but lived, in each breath and act of human… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
“Love seeketh not Itself to please Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease And builds a Heaven… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“Income and wealth may impress your friends and increase your vocabulary, but having a servant attitude and compassion for others will cause… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The most beautiful rose flower will lose its alluring beauty if it's the only flower in the garden. So let your words… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“Mercy begins with a deep awareness of one’s own need for it. Whereas Alinsky first sees injustice in others, the man of… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Say grace for the case to race with a chance to face the judge and I betcha my soul won't budge. Grudge… — Layzie Bone Copy Share Image
One important lesson I learned over and over is that, when you walk into any troubled organization, there is a delicate balance… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to… — Joanne Stepaniak Copy Share Image
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that… — John Hiatt Copy Share Image
Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs. — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Maybe the worst thing is not caring what people think. That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
“The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not… — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“The impression made on a wise man is that of universal innocence. Poison is not poisonous after all, nor are any wounds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
