Quotes About Compassion

Para poder desenvolverse socialmente, la gente necesita desarrollar lo que se conoce como "teoría de la mente". Dicho de otro modo, necesitan saber que las demás personas son distintas a ellos, que tienen un conocimiento distinto del mundo, así como deseos e intereses diferentes a los suyos.

Because it's not the "friends" or "followers" who stay by your side when you're sick or when you get divorced or just feel lonely. They're not sitting at the table with their neighbors—or even, in many cases, with their families.

ofrecerles una estructura, no rigidez; cariño emocional en lugar de afecto forzado.

If you are loved, you learn to love.

asking the fundamental question "What happened to you?" can help each of us know a little more about how experiences—both good and bad—shape

asking the fundamental question "What happened to you?" can help each of us know a little more about how experiences—both good and bad—shape us.

Empathy is the ability to put yourself in somebody else's shoes—both in an emotional sense, to feel a bit of what they may feel, but also in a cognitive sense, to see the situation from their perspective. If you approach an interaction from an empathic stance, you're much less likely to have a negative perspective on whatever is going on. And hopefully that will allow you to get to know the person better—even if it's someone you already know.

It's that we have changed our fundamental question from 'What's wrong with you?' to 'What happened to you?

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—and Endangered

You cannot love if you have not been loved.

The wise learn how to carry their burden with grace, often to protect others from the emotional intensity of their pain.

Mature human interactions involve efforts to understand people who are different from you.

When children understand why someone behaves oddly, they give him or her more slack, generally.

to understand someone, I wonder about that person's brain. Why did they do that? What would make them act that way? Something happened that influenced how their brain works.

The struggles I endured as a child are what allowed me to recognize and care about pain in others. The validation I longed for as a child is what I see other people longing for just as intensely. Thousands of people had the courage to share their stories with me because their story was my story. Their pain was my pain. Because all pain is the same. — Oprah

The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

A child raised with love wants to make those around him happy because he sees that his happiness makes them happy.

You Never Needed GOD to simply Do GOOD For Other People

The Bible is clear about hate: Hate is wrong.

Your Kindness Will Lead You to Success

The best business people are show people, as are the most effective educators and the most compassionate physicians. Whether consciously or not, they operate their professional lives as though they were in show business.

One of the best ways to demonstrate God's love is to listen to people.

Real living is living for others.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.