Compassion Quote by Donna Leon

I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's…

— Larry Gelbart

Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to…

— Sissela Bok

“In a world where nothing matters, the most atrocious events are no longer horrifying; the most piteous victims no longer stir our compassion; the…

— Charles Eisenstein

“There’s a trendy phrase making the rounds among intellectuals these days: compassion fatigue. We’ve just grown so tired of caring so much about the…

— Stan Goff

“The other problem with empathy is that it is too parochial to serve as a force for a universal consideration of people’s interests. Mirror…

— Steven Pinker

“Mindfulness and compassion practice are antidotes to compassion fatigue.”

— Carmel Sheridan

“Compassion fatigue is a common phenomenon, and nurses are especially vulnerable.”

— Carmel Sheridan

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

— Ellen Goodman

“Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.”

— George Eliot

“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.”

— Lev Grossman

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

— Thomas Paine

The divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole…

— Hernando Cortes