Quotes About Compassion

In the Empathy step, kids practice reflecting on their concerns and expressing those concerns in ways that other people can hear and understand.

In the Define Adult Concerns step, kids practice listening to another person's concerns (what many of us refer to as empathy), taking another person's perspective, and appreciating how their behavior is affecting others.

The goal of the Empathy step is to gather information from your child to understand what's making it difficult for them to meet a certain expectation. If you don't gather that information, the problem will remain unsolved. Just like the rest of us, kids have legitimate concerns: hunger, fatigue, fear, the desire to buy or do certain things, the tendency to avoid things that are scary or that make them uncomfortable or at which they don't feel competent.

kids do well if they can.

The vast majority of kids I've worked with over the years had already endured more than their fair share of consequences. If all those consequences were going to work, they would have worked a long time ago.

He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others.

You can't worry about the rest of the world, never mind the rest of the universe. All you can do is look to your left and your right and try to be kind to whoever is there.

It seems to me that you can't decide to like a person based on their personal circumstances. It seems to me that sometimes you can like a person because of who they are, despite their personal circumstances.

Be kind to people, just be kind. You never know what other people are going through, so whenever you can, however you can, be kind. Be true to yourself. When I say that, I mean just live life the best way that you can, honestly, decently. You won't be perfect. You'll make mistakes, maybe hurt people, and people will hurt you. But that's okay as long as you can know that everything you did, you did with the right intentions.

Rage was an essential part of slavery. Rage will allow us to forget our own humanity. Without rage, we will recognize another person as like ourselves. It's hard to hurt someone you're not angry at; it's anger that drives the impulse to harm. Rage declares itself through violence, and violence was the platform on which slavery was built. We feel rage when we feel separate; we feel compassion when we feel connected.

You can't love anyone when your heart is filled with hate.

don't care what he did or where he's been. It's made him who he is, and I like that.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.

You can move a lot of garbage across the bridge of love: alcoholism, infidelity, addiction, abuse.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

cosmic benevolence.

Tolerância universal é indiferença. Quem tolera tudo, é porque não se importa com nada'.

O silêncio é como uma taça vazia que, por ser vazia, permite que a pessoa que está sofrendo recolha nela todas as suas lágrimas, que nós não conhecemos.

era incompreensível o fato de que nas orações da noite que sua mãe orava com ele apenas os seres humanos fossem mencionados.

Detesto exibições de animais amestrados. Por quanto sofrimento aquelas pobres criaturas têm de passar a fim de dar uns poucos momentos de prazer a homens vazios de qualquer pensamento ou sentimento por eles.

Qual é o princípio ético?". De repente, como um relâmpago, apareceu na sua cabeça a expressão: "reverência pela vida". Tudo o que é vivo deseja viver. Tudo o que é vivo tem o direito de viver. Nenhum sofrimento pode ser imposto sobre as coisas vivas, para satisfazer o desejo dos homens.

Jesus ordenou "amar o próximo". Porque é fácil amar o distante. O próximo é aquele que está no meu caminho, que tem o poder de me dizer não. Mais difícil que amar os doentes, que são carência pura, fraqueza pura, dependência pura, mendicância pura, é amar aqueles que estão ao meu lado e que são tão fortes quanto eu. Reverência pelos que estão ao meu lado.

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