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~ If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men ~ ~ I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable ~ ~ No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion ~ ~ It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures ~ ~ With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment. ~ ~ Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy. ~ ~ Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them. ~ ~ Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart. ~ ~ Compassion is the basis of all morality. ~ ~ There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. ~ ~ I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion. ~ ~ The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. ~ ~ Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. ~ ~ The Secret's" message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness. ~ ~ I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival. ~ ~ This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way. ~ ~ If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. ~ ~ Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. ~ ~ Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation. ~ ~ Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost. ~ ~ Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost. ~ ~ Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. ~ ~ It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative, especially in the theater. You have to care so much that you can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't talk to people. It's just got to be right. You can't do it without that passion. ~ ~ Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance. ~ ~ Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease ~ ~ There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. ~ ~ Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. ~ ~ I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion. ~ ~ Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. ~ ~ The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead... ~ |
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