Quotes About Compassion

The Golden Rule says to "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." While on the surface that could mean to do for them what you would like to have done for you, I think the more essential meaning is to understand them deeply as individuals, the way you would want to be understood, and then to treat them in terms of that understanding. As one successful parent said about raising children, "Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

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 relationship with you.

As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood

Instead of trying to change him, we tried to stand apart—to separate us from him—and to sense his identity, individuality, separateness, and worth.

To deal only with the superficial trivia without seeing deeper, more tender issues is to trample on the sacred ground of another's heart.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation.

whether you are a mailman, a hairdresser, an insurance salesman, a housewife—whatever. As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

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. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the children you sacrificed for. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.

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.

I have no special virtue to make me resent him. One must have strength in order to judge the weakness of others. I am not so mighty." This

When the spirit is not altogether slain, great loss teaches men and women to desire greatly, both for themselves and for others.

Something in her expression made Covenant feel that he came from a very poor world, where no one knew or cared about healing stoneware pots.

When many matters press you, consider friendship first.

Will ye be there for him in his time of need, or do you prefer to take your anger with you to the grave?

None of us should judge anyone, only ourselves. Life is not infinite. A set time defines us all—then, just as the bones in the ossuary showed, to dust we return.

Lincoln was right. Do I not destroy my enemy when I make them my friend?

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi

Never hate your enemy. That clouded judgment.

The only people who get better are people who know that, if they never get better, God will love them anyway.

The anger of Jesus was never directed at those who were great sinners, but at those who seemed not to be.

If you use the law to judge others, go ahead, but don't assume that your judgment mimics the judgement of God.

God will not only love you if you don't get better; he will teach you that getting better isn't the issue. His love is the issue.

Never let anyone come to you without coming away better and happier. Mother Teresa