Quotes About Compassion

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Sometimes people just need to be heard. They find happiness in sharing their thoughts.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time.

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Good people can get you out of a thousand problems with charm and kindness.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.

Loving isn't finding perfection, but forgiving horrible faults.

Olvidaría el padre a su hija más pequeña? ¿Sólo porque no sabe hablar la dejaría sufriendo su mudez junto a las piedras? ¿Sólo porque cuando anda se derrumba y pierde su camino como ciega? ¿La olvidaría el padre sólo porque es pequeña?

One mustn't lose sight of the hard core, which is, do this, do that, love your friends, like your neighbors, be just, be extravagantly generous, be honest, be tolerant, have courage, have compassion, use your wits and your imagination, understand the world you live in and be on terms with it, don't dramatize and dream and escape. Anyhow that seems to be the pattern.

An empath has a gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be someone else.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.