323 Compassion Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is. Roxane Gay

Compassion Care Criticism Assumption Everyone Everything Critics Finite Simply Because Odd Cultural Commenting

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

Good World Compassion Computer Reduction Behind Screens Happens

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. Samuel Johnson

Good Strong Compassion Duty Only Wretched Principles

A lot of my friends in my student days complained about how their parents made them play an instrument when they were kids. I always felt compassion for them and didn't believe a parent could be so cruel, but when I check today, those complaining friends grew up to be quite successful, and many of them are now making their children play. Sayed Kashua

Today Compassion Complaining Made Parents Believe Those Kids About Parent Could Student Cruel Check Days Instrument Felt Always How Making Were Lot Up Friends Quite Children Grew Them Successful Many Now Play

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. Sebastian Horsley

Problem Compassion The Problem With

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy. Sharon Salzberg

Happy Compassion Something Opening Makes Us Why

I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using. Sharon Salzberg

Words Matter Compassion Practice Meditation Woven Throughout Never Implied Said Always Inevitably Method Used Using Even Technique

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

Love Revenge Strong Compassion Power Important Weak More Than Taught

We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found. Sharon Salzberg

Future Training Old Compassion Fears Perception Too Mindfulness Our Latent Perceive Something Habits Attention Sort Stir Provocative Which Then Skills Moment Using Found Actually Present Present Moment

Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence. Shereen El Feki

Best Nature Respect Rights Acceptance People World Treat Compassion Reflect Human Nature Human Rights Evidence Touched Laws Parts HIV Human Which Grounded Many Now Universal

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience. Star Jones

You Patience Compassion Married Bossy Compromise Allowed Learn

At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion. Stephen Moore

Government Welfare Compassion False Core

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us. Steven Curtis Chapman

Love God Compassion Sympathy Our Response Simply Us Shown Christians

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work. Steven Levitan

Work Hard Work Respect Honesty Charity Benefits Compassion Wife Focus Differences Heritage Other Our Though Religious Similarities Catholic Friends Children While Teach Hard Many Each Chosen Deeply Raised Jewish

Just as 'Islam' literally means 'peace,' none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood. Sushma Swaraj

Religion Peace World Allah Compassion Islam Every Brotherhood Similarly Names None Just Literally Mean Means Stands Violence

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst. Tara Brach

Thoughts Acceptance Experience Natural Compassion Free Radical Awareness Mindful Recognizing Embodied Easy Seeing Remain Open Arising Clear Force Passing Cultivate Discover Sensations Wanting While Midst Fully Phenomena Desire

I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might. Tea Leoni

Character Me Compassion Think Related Way Possible Some Someone Almost Sort Audience Sublime Maybe Anyway Might Initially Found Play

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. Terry Eagleton

History Lie Writing Vision Compassion Values Sympathy Honour Sphere Moral Above Rather Feminine His Existence Domestic Begin Than Begins Infiltrate Upper-Class Confined Being Pity Centre Social Turn Whole Associated

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win. Terry Waite

Love Day Win End Of The Day Compassion Will End

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. Thich Nhat Hanh

You Compassion Understanding Meditation Insight Get Them Act Compelled

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

Money Safety Compassion Responsibility Moral Responsibility Down Other Side Spend Moral Net Cases Restraint More Both Name Safety Net Fiscal Discussions Wanting Less Boil Serve

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