Quotes About Compassion

Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism. I never thought it was an option.

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

I grew up in a number of homes and I grew up without a lot of structure. I understand now that damage is part of the journey. Heartbreak. Loss. Gain.

When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.

You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will. Be grateful.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.

It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.

Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.

I believe that I am transgender to help people understand differences. It allows me to gain perspective, to be more accepting of others, because I know what it feels like to know you're not like everyone else.

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.