Able Quote by Angus Wilson

A heart can never be full until it has been broken. Through tragedies in life we learn compassion. When our heart fills with compassion…

— Tom Krause

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

— Heinrich Heine

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

— Gary Zukav

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart.

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultivates…

— Stephen Batchelor

I feel certain that words can be as human as people, alive with the breath of compassion.

— Margarita Engle

A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

— Joan D. Chittister

Words can only express what the heart cannot directly say.

— Jeremy Limn

Most people who claim to be heartless HAVE a heart but they're hurting inside and they act heartless because they dont want to be…

— SONYA PARKER

If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Everyone has a heart, they just use it in different ways.

— Anonymous

I suppose because our hearts are made in a certain way we cannot help being what we are.

— Irina Tweedie