Compassion Quote by Geneen Roth

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

— Anonymous

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

“Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain are two key motivators in all species. When we feel discomfort, we seek to escape the uncomfortable sensation.”

— Nir Eyal

“Don’t dare fancy you’ll be the man to teach me the pleasures of tenderness.” Tenderness was a rat whose neck she wrung with her…

— Cecilia Grant

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One…

— Albert Einstein

“There is intimacy in pain. Anyone who has comforted a sufferer knows it—the helpless tenderness, the embrace and murmur and slow rocking together as…

— Laini Taylor

“Embracing what is We’re conditioned to believe that painful feelings are “bad” and that pleasurable ones are “good.” It’s often easier—though not healthier—for us…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“All hurt is founded on attachment to anything regardless of its nature. When we detach we vibrationally send ourselves back into the flow of…

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

There is a particular kind of pain which gives us pleasure.

— Agnibin Banerjee

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or…

— Samuel Johnson

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes…

— Socrates