Compassion Quotes - Page 34

• Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Princess, Generosity, Quality

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• Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

  Brené Brown

  Letting Go, Thinking, Order

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• For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.

  Ann McLane Kuster

  Believe, Pregnancy, Past

  "The Case for Contraception" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

  Meister Eckhart

  Kissing, Justice, Peace And Justice

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• When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Children, Integrity, Opportunity

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• We must see ourselves as co-manifestors -- partners in manifestation -- all engaged in the primal act of unfoldment and emergence. Each act of manifestation may be directed toward a specific outcome, but it also contributes to the greater manifestation of the wholeness, love, compassion, and creativity of the primal source from which we all come.

  David Spangler

  Creativity, May, Outcomes

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• Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Women, Two, Enthusiasm

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• It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Judging, Sides, Should

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.321

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• To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Attachment, People, Evil

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sympathy, Console

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.322, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Feelings, Curiosity, Terror

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• Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Criminals, Littles, Danger

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• How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.

  Rose Macaulay

  Selfish, Giving, Justice

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• I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.

  Erma Bombeck

  Believe, Kids, Keys

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

  May Sarton

  Suffering, World, Hardest

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.185, Open Road Media

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• What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

  Dalai Lama

  Imagination, Meditation, Hearing

  Dalai Lama, Alexander Berzin (1997). “The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra”, p.56, Shambhala

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Mean, Mind

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Hands, Abuse, World

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly”, p.6

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• O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Real, Tears, Charity

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.90, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Eye, Sorrow, Experience

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1876). “Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm and the First Christmas of New England”, p.43, Library of Alexandria

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• The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Kindness, Joy, Mind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings”, p.35

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• Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

  Ellen Goodman

  Welfare, Victim, Fatigue

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• To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.

  Judith Martin

  Ignorance, Sacrifice, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

  Marya Mannes

  Sex, War, Race

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• Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Men, Justice

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.30, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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