Quotes by Speakers - Page 94

We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.
Gary Hopkins
There is no problem that greater consciousness and compassion, enjoined with positive resolve of will cannot solve.
Bryant McGill
Without love and compassion, nothing is sacred.
Bryant McGill
The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.
Bryant McGill
Spread your happiness to others and let them spread theirs to you.
Steve Maraboli
We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
Bryant McGill
We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.
Anne Lamott
The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.
Bryant McGill
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
Bryant McGill
He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you'd have quit this Game before you played it.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Ayurveda teaches us to love "as is" - not as we think people "should be.
Lissa Coffey
Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.
Soul Dancer
When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?
Vironika Tugaleva
Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient’s mind, awaiting his awakening.
Vironika Tugaleva
Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
Gary Hopkins
Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing.
Vironika Tugaleva
In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.
Vironika Tugaleva
It is only once you see the baffled expression on the face of your enemy when you give his cruel words a warm smile that you’ll understand, truly understand, what love is all about.
Vironika Tugaleva
Help people help themselves. Don’t judge, just help. In this process, be cautious to simply point them in the right direction and help them get moving. Don’t make your journey theirs, nor make their journey yours.
Steve Maraboli
Life is so much better when your passion and calling line up. You understand the gift of your spiritual inheritance, assume responsibility for right and just choices, and you pour your signature presence into serving others.
Gloria Burgess
Each of us has a call on our lives. This call says, ‘It’s time to get your act together, then take it on the road.’ This call says, ‘Put on your traveling shoes so that you can be of use to others... so that you can wear your soul on the outside, light the way for others, and pass it on.
Gloria Burgess
We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.
Gary Hopkins
We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves.
Vironika Tugaleva
You will have the ability to see other people accurately as divine, amazing, irreplaceable, human beings in the process, just like you. You will have the ability to forgive them and live in wisdom and compassion. You can do this because all of these qualities are in you. In fact, they are who you really are.
Kimberly Giles
Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated – it matters...that people matter.
Steve Goodier
All work done with love is healing work.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.
Vironika Tugaleva
When we can see our own self, angry and hurting others, within every villain, then we can love. When we can see our own desperate struggle for belonging in the eyes of every enemy, then we can love. When we can look at the greatest of atrocities and see the opportunity for healing within, then, and only then, can we really love.
Vironika Tugaleva
You can unlock spiritual things only from within.
Richard Rohr
People who don’t know how to use their minds can’t really know how to use their hearts either.
Vironika Tugaleva
As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.
Bryant McGill
Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.
Bryant McGill
Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance — toward yourself!
Bryant McGill
Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.
Bryant McGill
Dare to love every person, including yourself.
Bryant McGill
You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.
Bryant McGill
The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.
Pam Farrel
Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.
Gary Hopkins
We each have the power to give. It’s the most gratifying feeling ever. By reaching out to help another human being you're sending ripples of positive change.
Dana Arcuri
God wants to lead you to places you cannot get to without Him, and He does that by the power of His Spirit. He can bring you into the realm of the miraculous—not as a show, but as a demonstration of His love and compassion for the lost, hurting, or needy. Who among us doesn’t want or need that?
Stormie Omartian
Have you noticed that you feel better around some people than others? You smile more in their presence and afterward feel a little lighter, a bit more cheerful? I think of those people as “purveyors of hope.” They help me to know that beyond every mountain I face there is a path...even if I can't see it from the valley.
Steve Goodier
What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.
Steve Goodier
When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world. And thus, to attend to one's own suffering is the most selfless act.
Vironika Tugaleva
Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive.
Ken Poirot
You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance.
Gary Hopkins
Many people close themselves off from the world when they are under pressure. That is understandable. I have gone through periods when I didn’t want to meet people because I didn’t feel good about my situation in life and that made my life even more stressful. Remind yourself often about how much of an impact compassion and friendship can have on your life. You need to get out there, be compassionate and share your time and your life with your friends and other people that need your support. It’s worth it on every level.
Gudjon Bergmann
It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.
Matt Perman
To help people, love them. Then, they help themselves.
Vironika Tugaleva
If given a choice between stoic justice and compassion, I choose compassion. And if given a choice between worldly leadership and heaven at my feet—I choose heaven.
Yasmin Mogahed
Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.
Vironika Tugaleva
I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.
Victoria Moran
At a distance, we see a need and ignore it. We judge it, condemn it, forget it. We don't think about it, because if we practice ignorance long enough, we don't notice the need anymore. It goes underground, and we're content with the surface of life as we know it - unwilling to break deeper ground. If all appears to be well on the outside, that is good enough for our consciences....If we are willing to dig deep, to find Calcutta in our own backyards, we will find the poor. But we will also find God. And He may just open our eyes, so that we can see the need and not soon forget. So that we can hear their cries and not grow deaf. So that we can smell the stench of human need and awaken our hearts to compassion.
Jeff Goins
We who are rich with respect to the rest of the world must come to grips with our own poverty if we are going to make a difference. We must allow our hearts to be broken so we can make things whole once again. We must fall apart before we can build up. Anything else is not compassion. It may raise money or impress the neighbors, but it won't satisfy.
Jeff Goins
Compassion is the shortcut to connection.
Marilyn Suttle
Sometimes the people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it most.
Kristi Ling
The world is broken and remains that way, in spite of our efforts to help it. This is beautiful, in a way, because it breaks us of our self-dependency. In a world that refuses to be healed, we must face the fact that we are not the heroes of our stories. It teaches us to rely on something bigger than ourselves and teaches the source of true compassion.
Jeff Goins
If you're trying to serve someone in need and it doesn't hurt a little, you're doing something wrong. Sure, it's nice to lend a helping hand, but true compassion causes your heart to break - even at the moment you're helping...When people say the only reason to help the less fortunate is so you can feel better about yourself, I laugh. Those people obviously have never lived among the poor, the destitute, the heartbroken. They have never put themselves out there and truly suffered with someone in pain. This idea that philanthropy is self-medication is not true; in fact, it's so outrageous that it's laughable. If you're really helping someone in pain - if you're really experiencing compassion - you can't help but hurt too.This is the litmus test for those aspiring to make a difference in others' lives: Do we feel cheery about the work we're doing, or does it hurt a little, maybe even a lot? If the latter, you're on the right track.
Jeff Goins