Compassion Quotes

For too many of our citizens, Christianity has become entwined with the ecstatic worship of the gun and violence. For the adherents, there is no compassion, no love thy neighbor, no peace, no reason, and God only helps those who arm themselves.

Paul G. Tremblay

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Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

Christy Turlington

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Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

James Belushi

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Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures memorized like we should - to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you're talking about justice or mercy or compassion.

Bob Casey, Jr.

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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

Harry Browne

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Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

Anthony Carmona

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So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love.

Carrie Brownstein

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Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

Allen West

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Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

Daniel Goleman

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Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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When you relate to a disease, you're afraid. When you relate to a person, there is compassion. You see someone that is like you, that could be like you. You can see yourself in that same situation.

Uzodinma Iweala

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Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

Peter Coyote

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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

Sam Altman

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We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

Sharon Salzberg

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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

Saint Teresa of Avila

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We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.

Sharon Salzberg

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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.

Orhan Pamuk

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I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

Shannon Elizabeth

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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

Laila Ali

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I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Rick Warren

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There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone.

Jim Brown

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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Richard Gere

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Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

Joan Halifax

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