Quotes About Compassion

I think children understand the world better than adults do. Especially when it comes to how we treat other people.

When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.

It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard.

There are some things which are so horrific that some people feel they can't do anything about it: that the natural, understandable response is to tune it out.

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication.

When you sign onto something, you want the character to be redeemable and likeable, hopefully, and understandable.

Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through in depression. You have to kind of put yourself in somebody else's shoes.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means.

Whether you know it or not, when you leave one of my shows, you have a different understanding of disabilities and what disability is.