#compassion

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige. ↗

— Robert Welch

#american people #beautiful #carrying #compassionate #courageous

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#love #may #mercy #might #minds

No one looks or feels attractive when angry. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #fashion #meditation #vanity #art

Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion. ↗

— Bauvard

#compassion #emotion #funny #humor #funny

Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #psychology #wisdom #art

Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#compassion #history #kindness #life #mission

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#be true #compassion #despair #faith #generals

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion. ↗

— Charles Colson

#deadly #few #few things #misguided #sense

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ↗

— William Cowper

#dismiss #god #heart #his #man

He had strong, steady hands, and I could tell from looking at them there was little he couldn't do. Mossy always said you could tell everything you needed to know about a man from his hands. Some hands, she told me, were leaving hands. They were the wandering sort that slipped into places they shouldn't, and they would wander right off again because those hands just couldn't stay still. Some hands were worthless hands, fit only to hold a drink or flick ash from a cigar, and some were punishing hands that hit hard and didn't leave a mark and those were the ones you never stayed to see twice. But the best hands were knowing hands, Mossy told me with a slow smile. Knowing hands were capable; they could soothe a horse or woman. They could take things apart -- including your heart -- and put them back together better than before. Knowing hands were rare, but if you found them, they were worth holding, at least for a little while. ↗

— Deanna Raybourn

#compassion #deanna-raybourn #experience #hands #love