Quotes About Compassion

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Knowledge brings understanding and acceptance, only then can healing beings.

Being hurt is part of being a fallible human being, surrounded by other fallible human beings.

Zu den Steinen hat einer gesagt: "seid menschlich." Die Steine haben gesagt: "Wir sind noch nicht hart genug!

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

The mature response to the problem of existence is love.

Du hast nichts als Fehler", rief sie. "Jeden einzelnen deiner Fehler könnte ich hassen, alle miteinander habe ich lieb.

Wie kann ein erwachsener Mensch seine Jugend nur so vollkommen vergessen, dass er eines Tages überhaupt nicht mehr weiß, wie traurig und unglücklich Kinder bisweilen sein können. Es ist nämlich gleichgültig, ob man wegen einer zerbrochenen Puppe weint oder weil man, später einmal, einen Freund verliert.

Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony—Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others." ~ Erik Erikson

It is much easier and cheaper to follow a vegan diet than it is to perform due diligence on a diet that includes meat, milk, or eggs.

The more we are attentive and mindful, the more we can understand and show empathy. We need not, so therefore, bother about regret and remorse, later on. . ( "Island of regret. Island of remorse" )

Omit any language that's blameful or accusatory: you're not trying to make the person see the error of his/her ways, or feel bad—you're simply making it clear that they no longer have a job with the company, and telling them what will happen next.

Maybe I, too, was splashing around in other people's pain just to avoid drowning in my own. Maybe I was only trying to help them because nobody helped me.

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

If you're going to get connected, you're going to have to make peace with messy relationships. You're going to have to be okay with letting others in when you are at your worst and your life is a total train wreck. You also must be willing to turn the tables. When other people's lives are messy, you can't turn a blind eye or offer cheap words of comfort. You must willingly walk into the mess, even if they're hiding, and bear the bad stuff together.