Compassion Quote by Elif Shafak

“Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that…

— Jo Baker

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering…

— Bertrand Russell

“I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that something was…

— Anne Hillman

“Only once or twice in her life had she ever understood all of him, but the part of him which she knew, she knew…

— John Steinbeck

“Peri loved her father's tales. She had grown up with them. Yet the melancholy with which they were infused pierced her soul, like a…

— Elif Shafak

“All these stories present the knife of insight, the flame of the passionate life, the breath to speak what one knows, the courage to…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering…

— Bertrand Russell

“She knew all about love—that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.”

— Mary Hart Perry

“The Utopians wonder that any man should be so enamoured of the lustre of a jewel, when he can behold a star or the…

— Thomas More

“Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our…

— Simon May

“I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improvement of my mind but I find that much of…

— John Cheever

“Aphrodite put off her famous belt, in which all the charms of love are woven, potency, desire, lovely whispers, and the force of seduction,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides