Quotes About Compassion

fiction is a kind of empathy gym,

We're all on the same ball of mud and water that is heading toward a catastrophic end potentially. If we are going to solve these problems, we can't do it alone," he said. "That's why I think empathy is so valuable.

There's a Buddhist saying—be grateful for your suffering, because it allows you to empathize with the suffering of others.

be grateful for your suffering, because it allows you to empathize with the suffering of others.

A compassionate approach leads to less addiction.

Depression and anxiety might, in one way, be the sanest reaction you have.6 It's a signal, saying—you shouldn't have to live this way, and if you aren't helped to find a better path, you will be missing out on so much that is best about being human.

This use of solitary confinement is a standard punishment in American prisons. Not long before this, a mentally disabled man in another Arizona prison called Mark Tucker was kept in solitary for so many years, with his pleas for a cellmate refused, that he eventually set himself on fire. In the hospital, with 80 percent of his body burned, he was informed that the Department of Corrections was charging him $1.8 million to pay for the medical care14 to treat his injuries.

Your pain makes sense

His goal as a doctor was always "trying to identify what happened in the past" of an addict that made them find everyday life unbearable, and to help them overcome it by offering compassion and helping them to build a good life as an alternative. Now they were asking: If this is the goal of all good doctors, why can't it be the goal of government policy?

Instead of saying our pain is an irrational spasm to be taken away with drugs, they see that we should start to listen to it and figure out what it is telling us.

For millennia, humans have talked about something called the Golden Rule. It's the idea that you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Tim, I think, has discovered something we should call the I-Want-Golden-Things Rule.17 The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

Empathy makes progress possible, and every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.

Others are run by people like the man I met in L.A. who too often seem to be playing out their own traumas and internal stigma on people too raw and fragile to argue back.

every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.

reading fiction, over time, boosts your empathy.

clinical depression is an understandable response to adversity.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed

Lieben ist menschlich, nur müsst Ihr menschlich lieben!

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.