Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes

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.'

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• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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• The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  

  Sam Kinison
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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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• Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
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• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
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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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• You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

  

  Ted Olson
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• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• One of women's greatest values is compassion.

  

  Safak Pavey
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• My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
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• Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and charity, and decency in this world.

  

  Alan Keyes
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• With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.

  

  Dash Mihok
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• We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
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• As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

  

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• Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

  

  Bob Proctor
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• 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
  • Compassion
  • Saws
  • Compassionate