Compassion Quotes

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

Allen West

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We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Dave Davies

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There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

William Nicholson

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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.

Peter Morgan

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You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

Saint Stephen

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For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Paula Cole

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Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.

Said Nursi

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Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

Radhanath Swami

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We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

Shelley Morrison

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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

Laura Schlessinger

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Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

Todd Young

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I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.

Normani Kordei

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The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Jim Ramstad

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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

J. C. Watts

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We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that it's still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.

Nigel Hamilton

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If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Joan Halifax

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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

Karen Bender

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To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

Marshall Allman

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I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I have a great amount of compassion for people who feel that they don't fit in, or people who feel they have trouble finding their place in this world.

John Grant

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I love my religion, I love everything about it, but at the same time, I love my career, and I want to do it with the same love and compassion.

Karen Civil

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My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.

LZ Granderson

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Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

Max Lucado

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