Quotes About Compassion

He invented mother's hearts--& he certainly has the pattern in his own.

The great object of the author in writing has been to bring this subject of slavery, as a moral and religious question, before the minds of all those who profess to be followers of Christ, in this country.

Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

People's sense of self worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they've caused. The more solid one's sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

To listen with an open heart and ask questions to better help us understand the other person is a spiritual exercise, in the truest sense of the word.

If only our passion to understand others were as great as our passion to be understood. Were this so, all our apologies would be truly meaningful and healing.

When we think of fear, we think of a 'fear of' something. Far more daunting is the challenge of how to conduct ourselves in the dailiness of love and work when anxiety is high and shame kicks in. This is the human condition. We need not let anxiety and shame silence our authentic voices, close our hearts to the different voices of others or stop us from acting with clarify compassion and courage. In today's world, no challenge is more important than that.

Feelings are a package deal, and you can't avoid or deny the painful ones without also forfeiting part of your humanity. If you are never fearful, you may also have trouble feeling compassion, deep curiosity, or joy. Fear may not be fun, but it signals that we are fully alive.

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people who feel shamed and inadequate themselves tend to pass it on. I'm sure you've noticed that many individuals and groups try to enhance their self-esteem by diminishing others.

When we talk about a person being a problem, rather than directly to the person, we add to the underground anxiety and make it harder for the talked-about person to behave with confidence and competence.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

You can stand tall, without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

We're not very different from one another, not different at all in fact. We're all just people with the same needs, the same desires, the same feelings. It's a lie about us being different.

The women cried with one another, and it didn't seem to matter whether you were Jewish or Christian, you just mourned.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.

One has to be aware that human beings are involved in all these cases.

It is time that we recognize intolerance for its miserable worth and, at last, work together to eliminate it. This will be a difficult task, but it is a difficult task worth doing.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

All you have to do is to make it your business to find out what people want ~ instead of assuming it, instead of telling them. The one rule that sums up the job to be done ~ the one formula that is fully in harmony with the real world ~ the secret of success is: Find out what people want and help them get it!