Tag: Compassion

Quotes July 20, 2024

Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
 
 
 
It is up to us to welcome the unexpected and surprising joys offered around every corner.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
 
 
 
 
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon
 
 
 
 
Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
 
 
 
 
In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.
Pico Iyer
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 07, 2024

In a strange way the spiritual life isn’t “useful” or “successful.” But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.
Henri Nouwen
 
 
 
 
A cloud has a good time traveling. When it falls down it does not die, it just becomes the rain. A cloud can never die.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
 
 
 
 
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
Erich Fromm
 
 
 
 
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
Bill Wilson
 
 
 
 
In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
Howard Thurman
 
 
 
 
An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.
Lisa Feldman Barrett
 
 
 
 
I have always said that parenthood gives us another chance to grow.
Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
Have compassion for everyone you meet,
even if they don’t want it.
What appears bad manners,
an ill temper or cynicism
is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on down there
where the spirit meets the bone.
Miller Williams
 
 

Quotes December 19, 2021

Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.
Jim Rohn – 1930-2009 – American Entrepreneur-Author
 
 
 
 
One of the reasons we’re lonely is that we’ve cut ourselves off from the nonhuman world and have called this ‘progress.’
Barry Lopez
 
 
 
 
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton
 
 
 
 
We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. A little parenthesis in eternity.
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.
Anne Lamott
 
 
 
 
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
Hermann Hesse
 
 
 
 
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
Etty Hillesum
 
 
 
 
May the sun bring you new energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries,
May you walk gently through the world
And know its beauty all the days of your life.
Apache Blessing

Quotes November 23, 2021

“Don’t make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running conversation with the public.”
Ron Howard
 
 
 
 
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
Kurt Vonnegut
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero – 106 BC-43 BC – Roman Statesman-Philosopher
 
 
 
 
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller – 1608-1661 – English Churchman-Historian
 
 
 
 
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
Italo Calvino
 
 
 
 
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Etty Hillesum
 
 
 
 
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
Lucretius
 
 
 
 
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb
 
 
 
 
We can think of place-making as something that happens through movement: significance, memories and relationships are created by patterns of walking, approaching, branching away, visiting, gathering.
Michael Givens
 
 
 
 
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
All knowledge that has lasted is knowledge that makes us recognize interconnections.
Vandana Shiva
 
 
 
 
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
Goethe
 
 
 
 
May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift

Quotes May 05, 2018

“One friend, one person…who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider a problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.”
Dr. E.H.Mayo
 
 
 
 
“Compassionate people are geniuses…more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach,
writer
 
 
 
 
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James,
philosopher and psychologist

Quotes December 28, 2017

“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.”
Plato
 
 
 
 
Mysteries are not to be solved. The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

William Blake
 
 
 
 
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
32nd US president
 
 
 
 
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman,
writer
 
 
 
 
If you can’t get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you’re sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.
Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge: A Novel