Compassionate Quotes

• I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Spirit
  • Compassionate
  • Presume

• Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

  

  Ettore Sottsass
  • Existence
  • Calm
  • Patient

• We will read all the stories about how tough he was and all the rest of it, but I think he was a tremendously compassionate man as well.

  

  Eddie McGuire
  • Stories
  • Compassionate

• Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.

  

  Allen Drury
  • Remember
  • Understanding
  • Kindness

• God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Difficult
  • Rooms
  • Forgiving

• The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

  

  Vinessa Shaw
  • Action
  • Essentials
  • Compassionate

• Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fall
  • Wise
  • Intelligent

• Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Universe
  • Confident
  • Compassionate

• My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.

  

  Saul Rubinek
  • Defend
  • Compassionate
  • Abusing

• I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Book
  • Years
  • Needs

• Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?

  

  Christopher West
  • Christ
  • Catholic
  • Deceived

• My mom's coping mechanism was to be strong and resilient. She is very compassionate and nonjudgmental.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Mechanism
  • Compassionate
  • Resilient

• If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • People
  • inspirational
  • Cameras

• There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Motherhood

• If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • People
  • Care
  • Cameras

• In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.

  

  Julia Gillard
  • Vision
  • Patient
  • Prime Minister

• Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Today
  • Caring
  • Preparation

• In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

  

  Monica Crowley
  • Which
  • Conservatism
  • Neither

• We would all be better off if our doctors took us aside, sat down next to us, and gave us this compassionate, yet universally true, warning, I'm very sorry to have to remind you of this, but you've got only so much time to live; I suggest you begin, now, to make the most of every minute of every day.

  

  Bill Phillips
  • Sorry
  • Doctors
  • Compassionate

• We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Feels
  • Compassionate
  • Altruism

• Practice the healing power of the compassionate mind.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Mind
  • Healing
  • Compassionate

• If youre a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life.

  

  Kathy Smith
  • Change
  • Comforting
  • Beyond

• A compassionate soul is inner beauty.

  

  Keiko Fukuda
  • Beauty
  • Compassionate

• The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Humble
  • Compassionate
  • Mystic

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