Compassion Quote by Anne Truitt Download Open image “the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.” — Anne Truitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compassion Failure Honest Invaluable Personal failure
“In the path of compassion our patience, resilience and endurance are often challenged. Sometimes we may fail but we have to stand up again… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“genuine compassion makes people feel good, but it doesn’t tolerate total despair or hopelessness, let alone complicity.” — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“Compassion is the love that recognizes and goes forth to identify with the preciousness of all that is lost and broken within ourselves and… — James Finley Copy Share Image
Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Persons who have known suffering, have known struggle, have known defeat and loss, have understanding of life if they have self compassion. — Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
“Self-compassion comes from recognizing that our imperfections are part of being human.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
“By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not been able… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
“...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the concept of… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I fight with love and kindness as my weapons and compassion as my defense.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“If you refuse to use physical force, then you will be at the mercy of your oppressor!” — Segun Magbagbeola Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Helpers in every corner, helpers in every hood. That's how we'll make the move, to reform from rude.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc) You’d better be glad… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image