Quotes of: Compassion Keyword

What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.

A Private History of Awe

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.

The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.

Write like no one is reading 2

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.

Roxane Gay

Compassion means knowing that I may never find that person who understands my pain but through my struggle I can become one who understands.

Rachel Hamilton

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Sharon Stone

I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

Tea Leoni

People should just express themselves and not worry about trends - try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It's not to be taken so seriously. It's just clothes.

Kelly Cutrone

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

Kavita Ramdas

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other p...

Laurence Olivier

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

Lana Del Rey

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.

Morarji Desai

When does the dust of life seems to be a golden haze? When the whole gloomy day is manipulated by the ray of light through a lamp, ignited by a person with a surprise of love beneath an act of compassion.

Manish Kathuria

The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame. Define your success as a person of values. Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you.

Raphael Zernoff