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Quotes About Compassion

Empathy, a parent's ability to understand what a child is feeling, is an important and valuable ingredient of child rearing.
~ Haim G. Ginott
What is the goal of parenting? It's to help a child grow up to be a decent human being, a mensch, a person with compassion, commitment, and caring.
~ Haim G. Ginott
When we are understood, we feel loved.
~ Haim G. Ginott
They want us to understand what is going on inside them, what they are feeling at that particular moment.
~ Haim G. Ginott
In discipline whatever generates rage should therefore be avoided. Anything that enhances selfconfidence and respect for one's self and others is to be fostered.
~ Haim G. Ginott
It doesn't matter from which ethnicity you belong to; but always be like bounded body and never let anyone suffer in pain. Lets throw hate away. Lets all think for just five minutes; what will happen if we are disunited and United?!
~ Hakan Massoud Navabi
I happen to believe that the overwhelming majority of people in the world are law-abiding, loving, and caring. They just don't get any publicity for it.
~ Hal Urban
For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.
~ Halldor Laxness
Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes.
~ Halldor Laxness
Vi hadde en homse i menigheten vår i Virginia,» sier jeg. «Men etter at jeg rev ut øreringen hans med tang, kom han på bedre tanker.» Goodmoondoor ser på sin skjeggete venn som en liten gutt som venter på at en større gutt skal fyre løs. Torture skratter som djevelen selv, og svarer på godt engelsk: «Heh heh. Slik skal det gjøres. Svi ballene på dem!»
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
But we are not free until all of us are free. So love your neighbor. Please treat her kindly. Ask her her story, then shut up and listen. Black Asian poor wealthy Trans Cis Muslim Christian Listen. LISTEN. And then yell at the top of your lungs. Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues, for the people who had to grow up way too young, there is work to be done, there are songs to be sung, Lord knows there's a war to be won.
~ Halsey
People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
~ Hamid Karzai
All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used." So he made up his mind to be cross with his wife about it. But she bore it all like a good patient queen as she was.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
always think what we're doing is humane,
~ Hamish Hamilton
To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land so that the strong shall not harm the weak.
~ Hammurabi
Let him see his judgement, let his heart become soothed.
~ Hammurabi
The degree to which a society is civilized can be judged by entering its prisons.
~ Hampton Sides
The cure for hatred is straightforward. One should pray for the person toward whom he feels hatred; make specific supplication mentioning this person by name, asking God to give this person good things in this life and the next. When one does this with sincerity, hearts mend. If one truly wants to purify his or her heart and root out disease, there must be total sincerity and conviction that these cures are effective..
~ Hamza Yusuf
None of you has achieved faith until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.
~ Hamza Yusuf
When the Prophet says "brother," we should interpret this as universal brotherhood, which includes Muslims and non-Muslims.
~ Hamza Yusuf
The cure for hatred is straightforward. One should pray for the person toward whom he feels hatred, making specific supplications that mention this person by name, asking God to give this person good things in this life and the next.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Thinking about the weaknesses or faults of others is forbidden, whether they are present or not. The Prophet said, "There is a tree in Paradise reserved for one whose own faults preoccupied him from considering the faults of others.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Imam Ab? al?asan al-Sh?dhil?, a thirteenth century scholar, once prayed, "O God, make my bad actions the bad actions of those whom You love, and do not make my good actions the good actions of those with whom You are displeased.
~ Hamza Yusuf
When paying charity, for example, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand. It is a privilege to be in a position to offer charity and an honor to fulfill a divine obligation.
~ Hamza Yusuf