Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock. — Allen West Copy Share Image
The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
Oh God pour mercy on us. This earthquakes, Volcanos and natural disasters threatening us. — Saayasum Copy Share Image
“Every peak and valley of your life has led you to deeper understanding and, ultimately, growing compassion.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
I have learned to give, not because I have too much, but because I have known the feeling of not having anything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up. — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
“We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Why should we all use our creative power…? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“I’m sick of hearing it. I don’t think it’s right to stand by while innocent people are being tortured. I feel like… — Kris Noel Copy Share Image
Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age.… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.” — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“A good story invites us into someone else's world where we learn, discover commonalities, and leave with compassion and understanding.” — Lynda Cheldelin Fell Copy Share Image
“The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I do not expect you to understand, Mr. Cunningham. You do not have the experience to understand what has happened to me,… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In late twentieth-century America, this "jurisprudence of lawlessness" is a bit out of (fate. While there is a vigorous victim-rights movement in… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“I wasn't born a victim of life nor its slave. I just became a victim of circumstances at the mercy of the… — Hans Lindor Copy Share Image
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness could also be described as "heartfulness" because it is really about a compassionate awareness.” — J. Mark G. Williams Copy Share Image
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“included: no religious doctrine or practice can be authentic if it does not lead to practical compassion.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall. ~ Mercy” — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible. — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“In separateness lies the world's greatest misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.” — Buddha Copy Share Image
The unexpected kindness of strangers when you're having a stressful day just makes everything a little easier. — Lacey Chabert Copy Share Image
“Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.” — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you. — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
