Quotes About Compassion

While trying harder helps just about everything, telling someone with ADD to try harder is no more helpful than telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder. It missed the biological point.

You tend to ignore the structures that would guide you to take care of yourself if you are taking care of others too much.

Your reflex to help others starts to control you if you don't understand what's happening and take steps to prevent it.

Kindness makes kids grow, and adults as well.

Connection, positive connection, which at its most distilled is called love, has incredible healing power.

To tell a person who has ADD to try harder is about as helpful as telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder.

Forgiveness is not turning the other cheek. Forgiveness is not running away. Forgiveness does not mean that you condone what the person has done, nor does it mean that you invite them to do it again. It doesn't mean that you forget the offense, nor does it mean that by forgiving you tacitly invite bad things to happen again. It doesn't mean that you won't defend yourself.

They go forth with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one. The difference is important.

I have a great faith in the arts, in their power to diminish suffering

When the great theologian and philosopher Rabbi Hillel was challenged to explain the Torah in the time he could stand on one foot, he replied, "Do not do unto others that which is repugnant to you. All else is commentary.

Somos la única especie que ha comprendido la realidad del mundo viviente, que ha visto la belleza de la naturaleza y que le ha dado valor al individuo. Sólo nosotros hemos valorado la cualidad de la misericordia entre los de nuestra clase. Ahora, ¿podríamos preocuparnos también por el mundo viviente que nos dio a luz?

We are all worthy of one another.

But Lord,Be merciful to me, a fool!

Concentrate on the victims of enemy powers and forget about the victims of friends.

She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have to do anything more.

God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.

Nationalism has little to contribute today except further suffering.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us.

Those raised poorly end up hating their parents. They hate them until they realize... they could not help themselves. Just like us, they fall short. By honoring our parents, we honor the humanity in ourselves, and learn to not only forgive them, but also ourselves for having judged them so harshly.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.