Compassion Quotes - Page 35

• Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Oneself

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.104, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

  Simone Weil

  Hungry, Contemplation, Feeding

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• Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Pain, Grief, Heart

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• I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  The Next One, Doe, Bars

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1892). “Country By-Ways”

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• People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.

  Barbara Walters

  Race, Self, People

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• Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

  Liv Ullmann

  Rights, Justice, Suffering

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• One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

  Marie Corelli

  Way, Modern, Natural

  Marie Corelli (2015). “Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact”, p.348, The Floating Press

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• People like Jesus Christ, the Buddha, and other walking masters who have moved through the earth have demonstrated that understanding that they have no needs, far from prohibiting them from experiencing the needs of others, allowed them to experience that others lived inside of the illusion of need and to have great compassion for them.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Jesus, People, Understanding

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Generosity, Mind

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

  Laurence Sterne

  Loss, Sick, Might

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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• In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.

  Laurence Sterne

  Retirement, Book, Reflection

  Laurence Sterne (1811). “The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life”, p.139

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• That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

  Hosea Ballou

  Punishment, Discipline, Kind

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• The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.

  Hosea Ballou

  Children, Grief, Punishment

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• Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Kindness, Practice, Cities

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.

  Pema Chodron

  People, Important, World

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

  Theodore Parker

  Christian, Heart, Pity

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• if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Strong, Character, Perfect

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.251, Broadview Press

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• Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Animal, Roots

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• Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

  Merle Shain

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• The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

  Pico Iyer

  Love, Going Away, Enlightenment

  Pico Iyer (2006). “The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto”, p.336, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Imagination, Firsts, Kind

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• The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Disappointment, Average, Sorrow

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• There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

  Rose Pastor Stokes

  Sympathy, Air, Breathe

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• While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

  Elissa Schappell

  Men, Ghost Stories, Max

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• Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.

  Margaret Cho

  Humanity, Natural, Foils

  Margaret Cho (2005). “I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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