Best compassion & values Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values - looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous... It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another.”

Knows Men Dream Values Compassion Successful Rich Treats Fellows Obsessed Cash American Dream Just Being Superficial Looking Good Fellow Man Being Famous

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?”

Men World Should Made Facts Values Compassion Creation Humility Vegan Units Stewardship Veganism Presumption Small Parts

Book:The range of light: photographs

Source: The range of light: photographs

“We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop warm-heartedness early on in order to create a healthier society. I don't mean we need to change the whole system, just improve it. We need to encourage an understanding that inner peace comes from relying on human values like, love, compassion, tolerance and honesty, and that peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.”

“That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.”

“Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.”

Hard Values Quality Compassion Weakness Tough Punishment Patriarchy Linked Masculinity Negotiation Femininity Vengeance Reconciliation Exalted Powerlessness Vindictiveness

Author:Starhawk

“Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.”

Needs Children Values Compassion Integrity Insight Motive

Author:Irene Hunt

“We do know for sure that good Irish Catholics followed their faith in the direction of inclusion, compassion, equality, justice, and a host of other Catholic values when they voted with the majority despite some clergymen’s efforts to lead them astray.”

Knows Values Justice Effort Compassion Catholic Majority Despite Host Inclusion Clergymen

Author:Mary E. Hunt

“I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.”

Firsts Has Beens Facts America Values Responsibility Compassion Worry Degrees First Time Lifetime Worried Teamwork Divided Personal Responsibility

Author:John Kasich

“We men should be ashamed of ourselves. I think 85 percent of men are dangerous to women. We need to change to a values system nested in compassion and generosity, and women have carried that torch throughout history.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Values Compassion Dangerous Percent Generosity Ashamed Torches Need A Change Value Systems

Author:Patch Adams

“You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.”

World Littles Hard Might Spiritual Values Compassion Goodness Caring Cynical Gentleness Transcendence Little Time Spiritual Values Brash

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.”

Values Compassion Honesty Trust Honesty

Author:Dalai Lama

“The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership.... a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures.”

“The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier.”

Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

“Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.”

Values Strong Parent Challenges Lines Walks Compassion Grace Rocks Fine Discipline Circumstances Ultimate Compromise Firm Fluid Fine Lines

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.”

Humans Values Interest Religious Compassion Commitment Concern Harmony Meetings Affection Promotion Human Values

Author:Dalai Lama

“Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In embracing such 'frontier' values, we may become intolerant of human wholeness, contemptuous of anything in ourselves, and in others, that has needs or is capable of suffering. The denial of a vulnerability is the ultimate barrier to compassion.”

“I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.”

Want Heart Stories Feelings Values Emotion Compassion Achievement Intellectual Generosity Academic Measurement Love Relationship Academic Achievement

Author:Satish Kumar

“I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.”

“My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.”

Persons Care Faces Values Compassion Judging Dad Claims My Dad Stripes Face Value

Author:Rosanne Cash

“Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.”

Values Animal Compassion

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“You know, money will never save anyone. Compassion can save someone, love can save someone, money will never save anyone. And as long as the entire society will put money first... Money should be like third or fourth or fifth, I'm not saying lets get rid of money, but how can we put money as number one? As the only value, like if you are rich, you're famous you go VIP, why? It's just insane, the way we've transformed the society.”

Long Values Compassion Rich Insane One Love

Author:Luc Besson

“If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.”

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

Source: The Coming of Age

“Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.”

Values Justice Compassion Courage Theme Good And Bad Family Values

Author:Gary Oldman

“Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.”

Values Nations Compassion Thirds Resilience Australia Great Value

Author:Kevin Rudd

“Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.”

Ifs Knows May Helping Values Grows Views Compassion Enemy Conditions Brother Weakness Profit Point Of View Opposition Mature Nonviolence Assessment True Meaning Breaking Silence

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.”

Knows Giving Believe Humans Moments Values Given Compassion Knowing Our Lives Abundance Betray Priceless Truest

Author:Steven Erikson

“We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.”

“Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.”

“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.”

Looks Values Causes Wealth Justice Compassion Poverty Policy Revolution Contrast Righteous Fairness Coins Beggar Indignation Breaking Silence Righteous Indignation

Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.”

Trying Humans Whole Certain Values Human Beings Compassion Aspect Treats Garbage Junk Ecosystems

Author:Stephen Schwartz

“Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.”

“Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is our innate moral goodness, compassion, and pity which, when liberated, lead us to value all forms of life. It is obvious, then, that willfully to take life, or through the eating of meat indirectly to cause others to kill, runs counter to the deepest instincts of human beings.”

Source: To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian

“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”

“All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I believe the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics that is beyond religion.”

Thinking World Way Love Reality Today Values Spirituality Compassion Majors Ethics Convinced Tolerance Emphasis Adequate Way Of Thinking World Today Grounding

Author:Dalai Lama

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