Compassionate Quote by Philibert Joseph Roux Download Open image “Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.” — Philibert Joseph Roux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compassionate Grief Past Sadness Selfish Sorrow Unhappiness
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. — William James Copy Share Image
Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I… — Elton John Copy Share Image
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them. — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image