Quotes About Compassion

I will listen to those who have been ignored.

I'd be the world's biggest hypocrite if I couldn't love you despite your occasional stupid idea.

no excusar nunca los defectos de la gente. Podía aceptar que la gente fallara, incluso perdonarla, pero si perdonaba los defectos entonces nunca cambiaría.

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

My business is trying to arouse human pity. There are few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is when they've been used several times, they no longer work. So it happens, for instance, that a man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time that he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll hand him over cold-bloodedly to the police.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

Steve said, "I don't know. I really don't. All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and not what should or could be." His answer felt like truth to me. Not an easy truth, but truth.

Wholehearted living is about engaging with our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion and connection to wake up in the morning and think, 'No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.' It's going to bed at night thinking, 'Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

It's always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun.

Not enough of us know how to sit in pain with others. Worse, our discomfort shows up in ways that can hurt people and reinforce their own isolation. I have started to believe that crying with strangers in person could save the world.

1. People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In. 2. Speak Truth to Bullshit. Be Civil. 3. Hold Hands. With Strangers. 4. Strong Back. Soft Front. Wild Heart.

As Rumi says, "We're all just walking each other home.

Show up for people in pain and don't look away.

People will do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power;

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.