Quotes About Compassion

Meditation, prayer, covenants, ordinances, scripture study, empathy, compassion, and many different forms of the use of both conscience and imagination

love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love

Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is out there, stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

When I say empathic listening, I mean listening with intent to understand. I mean seeking first to understand, to really understand. It's an entirely different paradigm. Empathic (from empathy) listening gets inside another person's frame of reference. You look out through it, you see the world the way they see the world, you understand their paradigm, you understand how they feel.

One day I shared with him this principle of making what is important to the other person as important to you as the other person is to you.

man you might like to take her out. If you were

Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

Probably the most important deposit you could make would be just to listen, without judging or preaching or reading your own autobiography into what he says. Just listen and seek to understand. Let him feel your concern for him, your acceptance of him as a person.

For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have

life is a mission and not a career," and that we could find true happiness by serving others.

I'm sure there are people who, even suddenly understanding the true situation, would have felt no more than a twinge of regret or vague guilt as they continued to sit in embarrassed silence beside the grieving, confused man. On the other hand, I am equally certain there are people who would have been far more sensitive in the first place, who may have recognized that a deeper problem existed and reached out to understand and help before I did.

not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.

respecting the proactive nature of other people, we provide them with at least one clear, undistorted reflection from the social mirror.

newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return.

In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb.

Seek first to understand. Before the problems come up, before you try to evaluate and prescribe, before you try to present your own ideas—seek to understand.

Leo Roskin taught, "It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Žmon?s apskritai yra pažeidžiami ir jautr?s,tai, manau nepriklauso nuo amžiaus ar gyvenimo patirties. Iš paži?ros tvirta žmogaus išor? dažnai slepia švelnius jausmus ir šilt? šird?.

People want to be understood. And whatever investment of time it takes to do that will bring much greater returns of time as you work from an accurate understanding of the problems and issues and from the high Emotional Bank Account that results when a person feels deeply understood.

Make the human element as important as the financial or the technical element.

Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood." "Begin

right" will have little to do with being found out. Ironically, you'll find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their

Dad, that's okay," she replied.