"Compassion may be defined as the capacity to……" — Joan Halifax

More Attentive Quotes

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• We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth… — Mary Antin
• Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail… — Charles Brent
• ...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers.… — John of Kronstadt
• As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,… — David Brainerd
• While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without… — Nachman of Breslov
• Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,… — George Washington
• Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities… — Pope John Paul II
• Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for… — Samuel Johnson
• Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my… — Francois Rabelais
• One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife. — Groucho Marx
• Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher. — John Szarkowski

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