Quotes About Compassion

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

In short, a strong royal advisor class insists on stopping and thinking. And it tries, I think with growing success in modern times, to direct the wonderful, expansive energy of their society away from aggression and domination. Better to use that energy for creative inventions, exploration, and protection of the planet and the powerless.

We do not just have an idea of how someone else feels; we actually feel that way ourselves to some extent.

Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life. How we live with it, and help others to, is one of the great creative and ethical opportunities for HSPs.

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Research on parenting, for example, continually finds the elusive quality of "sensitivity" to be the key in raising children well. Turning

Children seem to thrive when their caretakers are sensitive. And I have met many highly sensitive caretakers who were at their happiest tending their children or the children of others.

Erityisherkät voivat tiivistää kaikki etikettisäännöt kolmen sanan sääntöön: vähennä toisen ylivirittyneisyyttä. (Tai kahteen sanaan: ole ystävällinen.)

Being simultaneously indifferent and insatiable is what narcissists do. It's the reason narcissists make excellent innovators. They don't stop, and they don't yield to logic or compassion.

When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El amor que regalamos es el único amor que mantenemos" (Elbert Hubbard)

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A friend is one who knows you and loves yu just the same.