Tennessee Williams Quotes

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.