“One evening Milarepa returned to his cave after gathering firewood, only to find it filled with demons. They were cooking his food,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent,… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Strong Mercy: My desires are many and my cry is pitiful, but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“In any interaction, it pleases us to feel that the other side is listening and acknowledging our situation. Whether you are negotiating… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
“The journey of working on yourself gives you the compassion for everybody. We only treat failures as moments of practice when we… — Rian Mileti Copy Share Image
“It is the divine light, the inner heaven, the key to all moral treasures, the centre of thought and consciousness, the source… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
“Jordan Two, on the other hand, was condemned to a state of being that made the harshest solitary confinement look like a… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“It began when they come took me from my home And put me in Dead Row, Of which I am nearly wholly… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Isn't it interesting that emotionally abusive personalities always expect their victim to feel guilt for them so that they can feel sorry… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
“the evolution of the heart and compassion is what is missing technically. Humans have proceeded to technological advances before without heart balance,… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
“12. Difficulties are no Match for the Optimist. How can we suppose that we, the children of Buddha, are put at the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Today, men, I ask you your lives." "I ask of you your lives and your courage. I ask of your faith, your… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
People ask me why I work so hard and why I have this compassion to reach the top and be great. I… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
“If the one thing was right, everything elses must surely be right; the thing was axiomatic. It was true that happiness had… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Psychopaths are social predators who are born without a conscience and without the ability to feel love, compassion, fear or remorse. Psychopaths experience… — A.B. Admin Copy Share Image
Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they thought the Urisk planned to beg for mercy. Perhaps the generals thought the Urisk were praying for some imaginary god… — Nicholas Olivo Copy Share Image
His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“the United States government was at the mercy of special-interest groups, lobbies like the National Rifle Association and the American Medical Association,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“The faculty to think objectively is reason ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility . To be objective, to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“Then she felt herself, she said, to enter into the very bosom of God, where she was transformed into her Beloved, so… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
“In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“It makes you worry about what people think about who you married, or if your new house you bought is less expensive… — Carolyn L. Dean Copy Share Image
