Quotes About Compassion

Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

Kindness effects more than severity.

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

The best gift is giving from your heart

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.