Quotes About Compassion

We're all just walking each other home." For

we need to disagree less, but we need to learn how to disagree better—without contempt or cruelty. It's

Yes, perspective is critical. But I'm a firm believer that complaining is okay as long as we piss and moan with a little perspective. Hurt is hurt, and every time we honor our own struggle and the struggles of others by responding with empathy and compassion, the healing that results affects all of us.

When we degrade and diminish our humanity, even in response to being degraded and diminished, we break our own wild hearts.

Every time we choose courage we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little braver and a little kinder.

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.

Shame resilience is the ability to practice authenticity when we experience shame, to move through the experience without sacrificing our values, and to come out on the other side of the shame experience with more courage, compassion, and connection than we had going into it. Ultimately, shame resilience is about moving from shame to empathy—the real antidote to shame.

Empathy is feeling with people. Sympathy is feeling for them. Empathy fuels connection. Sympathy drives disconnection. I always think of empathy as this sacred space where someone's in a deep well, and they shout out from the bottom, "It's dark and scary down here. I'm overwhelmed.

Healthy-striving self-talk: "I want this for me. I want to feel better and be healthier. The scale doesn't dictate if I'm loved and accepted. If I believe that I'm worthy of love and respect now, I will invite courage, compassion, and connection into my life. I want to figure this out for me. I can do this.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

The greatest need that any child has is the need for unconditional love.' (Boyd 2003)

It is she who is offering compassion to Janet. Compassion and gratitude in equal parts.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to they ask me to.

Kindness isn't so difficult, when the object is worthy.

Brie then thanked him warmly, allowing her momentary indignation to be soothed by this apology.

no matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!

This is the kind of person you marry—someone who loves the worst parts of you, someone who knows how to make you laugh even when you're mad as hell.

a reprieve like that "a tender mercy

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second something to reverence." —George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans, English novelist, 1819–1880)

Love has no colour, love has no gender, it is found everywhere and anywhere, only when accepted.

Secret, smug believers! God never gives you more than you can bear, they like to say, as if the strong should be punished for their strength: We can bear it. So we got it. But what about my baby? How weak does a newborn have to be to escape God's burdens?

I cling to this because to hope for this earth to go on after we're gone is the only kind of love left– the last good human piece of us.

For when you come to think of it, the only way to love a person is not, as the stereotyped Christian notion is, to coddle them and bring them soup when they are sick, but by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person