“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
“Gentle Mother, font of mercy, save our sons from war, we pray, stay the swords and stay the arrows, let them know… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my… — Ignatius of Loyola 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
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
Compassion goes on giving, but knows no feeling of giving, knows no feeling that "I am the giver." And then existence goes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“There is not such a pleasant history for you to read in all the world as the history of your own lives,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
“Celebrate deeds of mercy and justice. We live in a time when public esteem of the church is plummeting. For many outsiders… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
When Another Person Makes you Suffer, It Is Because He Suffers Deeply Within Himself, And His Suffering Is Spilling Over. He Does… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Caring was the only thing I ever did when we were friends. The minute you turned your back is the minute I… — SweetangelUnknown Copy Share Image
“If we are arrested every day, if we are exploited every day, if we are trampled over every day, don’t ever let… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Allah has names of Beauty: the Compassionate, the Merciful, the Gentle, and many others. But He also has Names of Rigour: the… — Abdal Hakim Murad Copy Share Image
“Every relationship in our life is divinely orchestrated, and every situation comes to into our reality for us to anchor greater consciousness.… — Premlatha Rajkumar Copy Share Image
Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will… — Suresh Jindal Copy Share Image
Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Always remember, wherever you are, whether near or far, you had a mother who really, really loved you. The original mother. Once… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
There are so many kinds of different feelings - not good feelings - going on in the room, and he comes in… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
“Mutually caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
If I'm a blessing to you, then either God will put it on your heart to bless me, or he'll use somebody… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Nothing stirs God’s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion… — Nicky Cruz Copy Share Image
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“[Beings with such realization] do not behold sentient beings, but great compassion still flowers in them. They do not behold themselves either,… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“How someone treats me (kind or cruel), is only between them and God, And my reaction the experience is only between myself… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image