Action Quote by Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings…

— Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings…

— Susan Sontag

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves…

— Krista Tippett

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

— Noah Webster

Compassion is an alternate perception

— Mary Caroline Richards

Compassion is where you have to step outside of your comfort zone, and help people you dont normally associate with, is powerful.

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry.

— Ryuho Okawa

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow…

— Matthew Fox

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all…

— Joan D. Chittister

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

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