“It is possible to think of fragrance existing before a flower was created to contain it, and so it is that God… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens… — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
You know what is more constructive than believing in something higher than you? Believe in yourself, make you a personal religion. Make… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Self compassion opens the door to self healing.Self compassion brings kindness to our failure,to our shortcoming & to our imperfectness.By acknowledging our… — Dr Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
“You were so quick to judge, weren’t you? Ah, you revealed so much with that contemptuous utterance. And I admit to being… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“I am amazed at the Savior’s encircling arms of mercy and love for the repentant, no matter how selfish the forsaken sin.… — Neil L. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Shout out to the noisemakers. Our world needs your voices. Make noise for justice. Make noise for inclusion. Make noise for empathy.… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“Lily had no heart to lean on. Her relation with her aunt was as superficial as that of chance lodgers who pass… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing… — Tsem Tulku Copy Share Image
“Sexual desire does not obey the laws that maintain peace and contentment between partners. Reason, understanding, compassion, and camaraderie are the handmaidens… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
“I am not an atheist. But the religion that I do advocate is not of the Bible, Vedas, Quran or any other… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, all we need is just one person who believes in us and who will never give up on us. Someone who… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
“You have compassion but by itself it is not enough. It is almost as if you carry around inside you some dead… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“It's easy to hate women and hate women's bodies when we don't do very much to fight back. We have to step… — Wendy Shanker Copy Share Image
“Do not desire chiefly to be cherished and consoled by God; desire above all to love Him. Do not anxiously desire to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“She thought that the most brilliant people display fondness for mercy. I could not conceal her opinion from my mind; it was… — Sarah Chergui Copy Share Image
“By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Im not going to use a singing take that I dont like but when youre acting youre totally at the mercy of… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
“when God in his sheer mercy and without any merit of mine has given me such unspeakable riches, shall I not freely,… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
“...your God is a trinity. There are three necessary prayers and they have three words each. They are these, 'Lord, have mercy.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Our relationships are stronger when we perceive that our partners are responsive to us. (The term used frequently is “perceived partner responsiveness.”)… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
