Karen Armstrong Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Pain, Motivation

  "How Can We Make The World More Compassionate?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 19, 2014.

• Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, World, Tables

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, Reality, Common

  "Practical Compassion: An Interview with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Heidi Bruce, www.yesmagazine.org. April 12, 2012.

• I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, Unique, Suffering

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 30, 2013.

• Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, Strings, Quartets

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 30, 2013.

• Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, Attitude, Heart

• Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, Lying, People

  "Practical Compassion". Interview with Heidi Bruce, www.yesmagazine.org. April 12, 2012.

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