Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.
Susan Vreeland
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. RICHARD FEYNMAN The Anatomy of Conflict: If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there ... SHANNON L. ALDER Understanding and compassion are the antidotes for the poison of anger. JIM GENOVESE Compassion is one of the greatest forms of human expression. Learn the art! ROBERT M. HENSEL If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compas... NHAT HANH I learned from her [his mother] that the highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter ... RICHARD FEYNMAN All situations can be resolved peaceful. We should advocate for kindness instead of violence. MARY SAGE NGUYEN Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the... TONY SAMARA There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope... DAISAKU IKEDA There is perhaps no stronger symbol peace and compassion than you, MICHAEL BLOOMBERG World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I t... DALAI LAMA XIV My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness. Compassion can be put into practice if ... DALAI LAMA What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: t... NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one... NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the hu... LOUIS GERSTNER Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the hu... LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but... JAMES ALTUCHER It taught me that . . . there can be no true humility and no true compassion where there is no coura... WHITTAKER CHAMBERS When you isolate kindness you define kindness: and that limits its limitless expansion. JACINTA MPALYENKANA In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's comp... LEO TOLSTOY In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and l... GREGORY PECK If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have ma... MARYROSE WOOD Positive emotions like compassion and loving kindness engender in us a deep sense of peace and seren... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance o... EPHRAIM MIRVIS Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kind... DALAI LAMA XIV I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they... JAMES TAYLOR To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that ... PETER ACKROYD More than being human, we need peace and love. More than being strong and capable, we nee... NURUDEEN USHAWU Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion a... SHANNON L. ALDER But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political comm... MARTHA NUSSBAUM We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindnes... RON REAGAN Fruits of understanding is compassion. Fruits of compassion is love. Fruits of love is peace. AMIT RAY Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peac... AMIT RAY In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and l... BROCK PETERS In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and l... BROCK PETERS I decided there and then to sue the bastards. BARRY SHEENE Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human... ROBERT A.F. THURMAN Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, crue... CéSAR CHáVEZ The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this co... JASMINE GUY Why do we teach our children to hate others when there is no other option than to love? We need to t... DEBASISH MRIDHA Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the soul... DAVID O. MCKAY There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there c... M. SCOTT PECK With Self-compassion one inculcates virtues of kindness, care, warmth, and understanding. DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an ext... ITALO CALVINO Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and aw... AMIT RAY Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; wi... KATHARINE ELIZABETH FULLERTON GEROULD A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the paramete... KILROY J. OLDSTER And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak... LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a fo... JOE KLEIN There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, be... LIU XIAOBO There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all. JEFFREY FRY There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, ... JAMES GURNEY The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others. ALBERT SCHWEITZER "Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility. ROSE N. FRANZBLAU I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attrib... CRISS JAMI The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice. FRANS DE WAAL The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Co... JACQUELINE RIPSTEIN If the destination is Peace, then the road is Love and the vehicle is Compassion. DON REED SIMMONS “All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another." MARQUIS DE SADE The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. ALBERT SCHWEITZER The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. ALBERT SCHWEITZER I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a par... NIELS ARDEN OPLEV There is no religion better than love, no color better than the color of happiness and no language b... ABHIJIT NASKAR As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happ... DALAI LAMA As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery
we have learned that the key to happi... DALAI LAMA Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understandin... OSCAR WILDE A lotus without leaves lacks splendor. A lotus without water is a dying flower attracting no attenti... PETER SAYSOMPHANE [Peters paid tribute to Peck after Peck's death in 2003.] In art there is compassion, in compassion ... BROCK PETERS Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK Compassion is the chief law of human existence. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for ou... DALAI LAMA Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for ou... DALAI LAMA XIV Life for women in rural Scotland is not like anywhere else in the world. We all live very far apart,... ROSAMUNDE PILCHER Intelligence is no where near the compassion of Inclusion! PENNY D SHERWOOD There is strength in unity. Have compassion, kindness, and love for one another. Instead of finding ... AKIROQ BROST Self-compassion is being willing to look at your mistakes or failures with kindness and understandin... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means “to suffer with,” which imp... KRISTIN NEFF Non-violent resistance to evil is a quintessential element of the character of a real human being. I... ABHIJIT NASKAR Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always fail... BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he o... ORHAN PAMUK Understanding” may become “misunderstanding”, if no commitment or no responsibilities are assu... ERIK PEVERNAGIE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON To succeeds You must have self compassion. With self compassion you feel warmth, caring, and the des... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Where there are love and generosity, there is joy.
Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is... LARRY REED There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love. DEBASISH MRIDHA Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ... ERIC HOFFER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding... ERMA BOMBECK It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ERMA BOMBECK We need to as a society to get compassion back into our lives. What we are seeing all over the world... STEVEN ESPINOSA That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longi... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there m... SUZY KASSEM I feel strongly that Christians have a scriptural mandate to love and care for all the people of the... JAMES C. DOBSON
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