1,217 quotes found
“You may wonder why so many of my quotes - and all my work - is about love, compassion and inner peace? Because life is nothing, empty, bereft without these things.”
“If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And p...”
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optica...”
“Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got the message that asking for help is a sign of weakness. We often forget...”
“Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.”
“If your children asked you about your honesty with God, Let them look at the pictures with the person you married and was the reason they're alive...and they will understand.”
“Love seeks the best. Love endures all times. Love never changes.”
“Our compassion, spirituality, and appreciation of beauty provide us with the capacity to love.”
“Choose a compassionate frame of mind. Always choose love. Always be kind.”
“Oh, why does compassion weaken us?'It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if ...”
“Every act of kindness is a seed of success.”
“Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human beings life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments!”
“To ease a grieving heart is the world's greatest pleasure, more so, when the heart is yours.”
“Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.”
“The greatest asset you could own, is an open heart.”
“It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise ma...”
“The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelti...”
“When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.”
“I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their separation. And I think, NO. Not me. I will not get lost ...”
“She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?""In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.”
