Charity Quote by Sally Brampton Download Open image “...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability” — Sally Brampton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charity Compassion Family Friendship Generosity Happiness Love Mean Relationship Vulnerability
Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
“The “principle of charity” and the “science of compassion” are both crucial to any attempt to understand discourse and ideas that initially seem baffling,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Compassion and generosity are not just lofty virtues - they are at the center of our humanity, what makes our lives joyful and meaningful.” — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“We tend to view compassion as something we project outward—that is, as a presence or gift we offer to another person or on behalf… — John Paul Lederach Copy Share Image
“Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“Imagine saying to somebody that you have a life-threatening illness, such as cancer, and being told to pull yourself together or get over it.… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“I once read a theory about ‘positive thinking’ that seems to be true or, at least, made a sufficient impression on me to remember… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“I would not wish depression on anybody. And yet, it taught me a lot. I have not become suddenly mawkishly grateful for my life… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“It is two years since I emerged from depression and I no longer want myself dead. I want myself alive. I am no longer… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence. — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world,… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
