- “The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.” ― David brooks
- “To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.” ― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
- “Can your guilt satisfy your conscience? Can your hatred vanquish your compassion?” ― Noha Alaa El-Din, Norina Luciano
- “Giving Thanks leads to a desire to forgive, and forgiveness speaks of pure surrender and acceptance of the things that have happened in our lives, with that accomplished we can experience the Peace and Joy of true Forgiveness, Not only for others but for ourselves also.” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “Your suffering is here to help you unfold and to awaken into compassion, love and strength.” ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
- “Human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with whatever we can find … It is disconnection that drives addiction.” ― Christopher Kennedy Lawford, When Your Partner Has an Addiction: How Compassion Can Transform Your Relationship
- “There were both desolations and calm compassions in this Jesus of Nazareth” ― Walter Wangerin Jr., Jesus
- “Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.” ― Thomas Merton, The Hidden Ground Of Love: The Letters Of Thomas Merton On Religious Experience And Social Concerns
- “Искренняя жизнь предполагает развитие чувства собственного достоинства, воспитание в себе смелости и сострадания, а также установление связей с окружающими. Такая жизнь позволяет просыпаться по утрам с мыслью: «Не важно, что сделано и как много еще осталось сделать: независимо от этого я — достойный человек»; или ложиться вечером в постель и думать: «Да, пусть я несовершенна и уязвима, и иногда мне бывает страшно, но это никак не умаляет той истины, что я — смелый человек, достойный любви и отношений».” ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
- “Start a compassion movement in your community by being a living example of kindness.” ― Amy Leigh Mercree, The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart
- “May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.” ― Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Vegan’s Daily Companion: 365 Days of Inspiration for Cooking, Eating, and Living Compassionately
- “Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded—a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures.” ― Mary Shelley, Lodore
- “To forgive does not mean to condone.” ― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
- “Pretend that you are the soul inside everyone you meet.” ― Tom Bliss, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
- “A few things to remember:You are beautiful, just as you are. You are as worthy as anyone who has ever lived. Your voice doesn’t just matter but is needed.Your love makes a profound difference.Your compassion serves us all.We are family.We’ll figure that out someday,with a lot of dedication and hard work.It will be worth it.I love you.” ― Scott Stabile
- “Mind, Body, Soul, can be likened to a house. A vacant house falls into ruin much more quickly than one that is called home and is lived in.” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone’s life.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
- “Physical well-being necessitates listening to what you already know, and then taking it seriously enough to act accordingly. When you wake up and feel the impulse to arch your back, stretch and exhale with a loud sigh, for God’s sake, do it.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “Love even the knot-grass. God created it.Understanding is concealed in the heart.” ― Agni Yoga Society, Leaves of Morya’s Garden I
- “I’d always follow Nixon’s orders, but you can’t order somebody to be happy.” ― Charles W. Colson, Born Again
- “What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)” ― Jean-Yves Leloup, Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
- “True resistance begins with people confronting pain… and wanting to do something to change it.” ― Bell Hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
- “Be tough minded but tenderhearted.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
- “Experiencing terrible pain opens our hearts and minds to express compassion for other people and communion with ourselves.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “We have traded our intimacy for social media, our romantic bonds for dating matches on apps, our societal truth for the propaganda of corporate interests, our spiritual questioning for dogmatism, our intellectual curiosity for standardized tests and grading, our inner voices for the opinions of celebrities and hustler gurus and politicians, our mindfulness for algorithmic distractions and outrage, our inborn need to belong to communities for ideological bubbles, our trust in scientific evidence for the attractive lies of false leaders, our solitude for public exhibitionism.We have ignored the hunter-gatherer wisdom of our past, obedient now to the myth of progress.But we must remember who we are and where we came from.We are animals born into mystery, looking up at the stars. Uncertain in ourselves, not knowing where we are heading. We exist with the same bodies, the same brains, as Homo sapiens from thousands of years past, roaming on the plains, hunting in forests and by the sea, foraging together in small bands.Except now, our technology is exponentially increasing at a scale that we cannot predict.We are overwhelmed with information; lost in a matrix that we do not understand.Our civilizational “progress” is built on the bones of the indigenous and the poor and the powerless.Our “progress” comes at the expense of our land, and oceans, and air.We are reaching beyond what we can globally sustain. Former empires have perished from their unrestrained greed for more resources. They were limited in past ages by geography and capacity, collapsing in regions, and not over the entire planet.What will be the cost of our progress?We have grown arrogant in our comfort, hardened away from our compassion, believing that our reality is the only reality.Yet even at our most uncertain, there are still those saints who are unknown and nameless, who help even when they do not need to help.They often are not rich, don’t have their profiles written up in magazines, and will never win any prestigious awards.They may have shared their last bit of food while already surviving on so little. They may have cherished the disheartened, shown warmth to the neglected, tended to the diseased and dying, spoken kindly to the hopeless.They do not tremble in silence while the wheels of prejudice crush over their land.Withering what was once fertile into pale death and smoke.They tend to what they love, to what they serve.They help, even when they could fall back into ignorance, even when they could prosper through easy greed, even when they could compromise their values, conforming into groupthink for the illusion of security.They help.” ― Bremer Acosta
- “Be kind. Be compassionate. Be love. Be original. Be authentic. Be peace. Be yourself. BE.” ― Karen A. Baquiran
- “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John1:1Words carry great power, it is quite important to know not so much what the dictionary says that they mean, but what the ancients say that they mean.Judaism believes that the entirety was created by rearranging the 22 letters of its alphabet into words, and whatever was spelled by God was created. “And God SAID let there be light and there was” God said/spelled a word first before any creation. In the beginning, was the word.Jesus, while on the cross, could have easily said, “Forgive them Father for they know not what they say” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “The highest goodness is like water.Water is beneficial to all things but not contend. It stays in places which others despise. Therefore it is near Tao. The weakest things in the world can overmatch the strongest things in the world. Nothing in the world can be compared to water for its weak and yielding nature; yet in attacking the hard and strong nothing proves better than water. For there is no alternative to it. The weak can overcome and the yielding can overcame the hard. This all the world knows but does not practice. This again is the practice of ‘wu-wel’ and nonviolence. Water may be weak, pliable, fluid, but its action is not one of running away from an obstacle. On the contrary, it gives at the point of resistance, envelopes the object and passes beyond it. Ultimately it will wear down the hardest rock. Water is a more telling symbol than land… crossing the river to get to the other side is, again, attaining the state of enlightenment.” ― J.C. Cooper
- “The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans. Bad bacteria in the gut creates neurological issues. Autism can be cured by detoxifying the bellies of young children. People who think that feelings come from the heart are wrong. The gut is where you feel the loss of a loved one first. It’s where you feel pain and a heavy bulk of your emotions. It’s the central base of your entire immune system. If your gut is loaded with negative bacteria, it affects your mind. Your heart is the seat of your conscience. If your mind is corrupted, it affects your conscience. The heart is the Sun. The gut is the Moon. The pineal gland is Neptune, and your brain and nervous system (5 senses) are Mercury. What affects the moon or sun affects the entire universe within. So, if you poison the gut, it affects your entire nervous system, your sense of reasoning, and your senses.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “Why are you touching me?””Because I can.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me