We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and… — Adam Pascal Copy Share Image
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
Never assume you know someone completely unless you have traveled the journey of their heart. Smiles, tears, love, and fears are not… — Tammi Post Copy Share Image
The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Hate the critics? I have nothing but compassion for them. How can one hate the crippled, the mentally deficient, and the dead?” — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
“Thieves are thieves and whores are whores, they are that way for a reason. We should have compassion for them, but also… — VD Copy Share Image
“My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“The love for equals is a human thing--of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“[Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral.… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being… — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
“One ends a romantic relationship while remaining a compassionate friend by being kind above all else. By explaining one’s decision to leave… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“And so, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness… — Robert S. McGee Copy Share Image
“Be compassionate and humble, not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing. 1 Peter 3:8–9” — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious. — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
“Don't use drowsy EYES to look at what Christ used a passionate BLOOD to do for you. Don't use a sluggish LEG… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Oh my lady what such mercy you upon me but before I befall to your lovey charms I much say you do… — Michael Country Copy Share Image
A person who respects others is respected by others in return. Those who treat others with compassion and concern are protected and… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“God’s love and mercy (like liberal preachers). Only when people see God as absolutely holy and absolutely loving will the cross of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The only place healing can occur, wisdom can be realized, compassion can be extended, and peace can be experienced, is the present… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined by… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
“Watch your mouth. I pissed on your plan?’ he asks incredulously. ‘Ava, let me tell you, nowhere in my plan was it… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here.… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
![“[Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral. And what is it? Both, and neither... [its] the decision to be faithful, the patient refusal of easy gratifications... of Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane and on the cross, that…” quote by Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b2c/rowan-williams-8580_christ_knowing-god-call-it-love-yes-only-that-c_2271375.jpg)
