May 27, 2012

I call myself a feminist.  Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?  We all come from the same mother.  That creates the basis for compassion. ~ His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama

February 26, 2012

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. ~ Thomas Aquinas

December 31, 2011

With or Without You, I Go On

With or without compassion,
Understanding,
Sanctity,
Love,
I go on.

With or without consent,
Support,
Favour,
A plan,
I go on.

With or without strength,
Courage,
Wisdom,
Serenity,
I go on.

With or without devotion,
Integrity,
Passion,
Tolerance,
I go on.

With or without adversity,
Perseverance,
Resilience,
You,
I go on.

~Kristine Hurt

March 19, 2011

With courage you dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble.  Courage is the foundation of integrity. ~ Keshavan Nair

October 25, 2010

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.  He is immortal, not because he alone has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.  The poet's, the writer's duty is to write about these things.  It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honour and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.  The poet's voice need not be merely the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~ William Faulkner (from his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech)

June 18, 2010

Don't yield to the temptation of believing that the world can be fixed. Above all, don't yield to the hubris that you can fix it. Realize that your actions can, at best, make some conditions in the world a little more bearable, make suffering a little less painful. But just because this is all you can do, does not mean that you should not do it... do it in the face of all hopelessness. And why? Because to help, to be compassionate is your highest calling... if you can't do this, if you won't do this, then you are hopeless. ~ Dr. Stephen Hoeller