Barry Melrose Quotes & Sayings

Compassion is not an idea or something we can imagine. It is a mental formation that has an immediate result in action of body, speech, or mind. It is rooted in understanding. When we understand why we suffer we can be compassionate to ourselves. When we understand how others suffer then we can be compassionate to them. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it. — Chaske Spencer

In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came. — Kathryn Lasky

Marriage is based on a more enduring kind of love. — Kate Atkinson

LOVE comes of its own free will,
it can't be learned in any school! — Rumi

You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going. — Gwen Bristow

On considering political societies, their origin, their constitution, and their effects, I have sometimes been in a good deal more than doubt, whether the Creator did ever really intend man for a state of happiness. He has mixed in his cup a number of natural evils, (in spite of the boasts of stoicism they are evils,) and every endeavor which the art and policy of mankind has used from the beginning of the world to this day, in order to alleviate or cure them, has only served to introduce new mischiefs, or to aggravate and inflame the old. Besides this, the mind of man itself is too active and restless a principle ever to settle on the true point of quiet. It discovers every day some craving want in a body, which really wants but little. — Edmund Burke

To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past. — Josh Bernstein

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. — Laurence Olivier