Quotes by Compassion Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms. Norm Phelps buddhistbuddhismcompassion The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do. Norman Cousins compassionheartdeath As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love. Norman Maclean gratitudebiblicalcompassion I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years. Norval Morrisseau laughtercommunicationcompassion Do all things with love. Og Mandino compassionall-thingslove Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. knivescompassionreflection Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it. Olivia Wilde weaknesscompassionpeople Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives. Oprah Winfrey empoweringcompassionpeople The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony. Orhan Pamuk coloreyecompassion Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance. Oliver Goldsmith compassionheartmen The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region. Orhan Pamuk gapssurrendercompassion When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion. Oscar Levant alscompassionyoung Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus! Oswald J. Smith compassionsouljesus A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. Otto von Bismarck compassionsuccessmen No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of knowledge. It is only by suffering that the genius understands men. And the genius suffers most because he suffers with and in each and all; but he suffers most through his understanding. . . . Otto Weininger compassionmenpeople True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion P. C. Cast shoescompassionhair It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air. P. D. James echoescompassionstruggle Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion. Paige guncompassionwar What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule. Pankaj Mishra tolerancecompassionself We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world. Pankaj Mishra empathycompassionideas«8384858687888990919293»
