It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
He who feels no compassion will become insane.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
The dew of compassion is a tear.
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.