Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Arkin

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Alan Alda

Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

Chris Abani

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

Chogyam Trungpa

Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things

Chogyam Trungpa

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Chogyam Trungpa

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

Chinua Achebe

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Cheyenne Jackson

I think having a dog makes you more compassionate.

Cheryl Strayed

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Cheri Huber

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

Cheri Huber

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

Charlie Kaufman

I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death early and it can be a very troubling thing. We're all in this continuum: I'm this age now, and if I live long enough I'll be that age. I was 20 once, I was 10, I was 4. People who are 20 now will be 50 one day. They don't know that! They know it in the abstract, but they don't know it. I'd like them to know it, because I think it gives you compassion.

unseen strength. New Yorkers came together in a way that no one imagined New Yorkers could or would. The generosity and compassion spread around the country and the world.

We've all been in a situation where you've had some failed love affair ... and then you wallow in a sad song afterward, ... Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War & Death.

Mark Twain

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Penn Jillette

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

There is no personal animosity between the migrants and the Coast Guard in general. We try to do it with the highest degree of compassion and humanitarian concern that we can, but ultimately it is a law enforcement mission.

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Carlos Santana

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

Camille Paglia

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Camille Paglia

Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

Camille Paglia

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

Camille Paglia

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

Carl Jung

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

Brian Perkins

Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul? Thoughts that I ask others several upon several, still feeling spirits upon spirits with the few moments of love, comfort, unity, & compassion all in a few seconds the holding of each other. The hole that is missing is slowly filled with happiness, joy, good or bad times.

Bill Nighy

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

Bill Nighy

One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

Bernard Goldberg

Journalists love to show their compassion.

Elizabeth Taylor

I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.

Arthur Hertzberg

The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove that he could be a moral being...man was given dominion over nature, but he was commanded to behave towards the rest of creation with justice and compassion. Man lives, always, in tension between his power and the limits set by his conscience.

Ben Stein

Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.