All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. – Rita Mae Brown
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
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I’ve never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. – Shania Twain
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
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
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
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. – Ron Reagan
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. – Paul D. Boyer
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
As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. – Ram Dass
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you’re a writer. – Paul Haggis
Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn’t matter who’s at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It’s not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn’t mean you can’t have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused. – Rory Freedman
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
It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are. – Sharon Salzberg
The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings. – Radhanath Swami
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. – Samuel Johnson
I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don’t make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion. – Om Puri
Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back – when there’s some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth. – Sharon Stone
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. – Ron Reagan
I understand what it’s like to go to hospitals and there’s no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion. – Sharon Stone
Compassion isn’t morose; it’s something replenishing and opening; that’s why it makes us happy. – Sharon Salzberg
I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.’ – Ricky Williams
If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary. – Russell Simmons
Weakness is something we don’t like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it. – Olivia Wilde
If you love God, you can’t hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn’t die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening. – Radhanath Swami
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. – Ursula K. Le Guin