Quotes About Compassion

I get a kick out of people who talk like it only happened to them," says lawyer Denis Kelly. "I wonder, 'Didn't you notice that everybody else is going through it?

The gift of empathy opens us up when the tendency to shut down and turn away from the world is often at its greatest.

Humility helps us come to terms with what we cannot know. Patience takes the edge off when the hurt continues. Empathy is the gift that connects us with others. Forgiving ourselves for having such perfectly human reactions is harder than forgiving whatever caused them.

With the Five Gifts, we can solve our problems without shooting each other.

The unrealistic belief that we are somehow entitled to go through life unmoved by other people's suffering further limits our ability to cope with our own.

Humility—the first gift—can help us surrender to an event outside our control, one we couldn't prevent and was not our fault

People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

Kako da ?ovjek bude zdrav kad moralno pati? Zar može, ako ima osje?aja, ostati miran u ovo naše doba?

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.

You all right? his eyes asked. I'm all right, hers answered.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

And bear in mind that forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.

They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.

But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

If there is one thing I disapprove of it's the unnatural capture and taming of wild animals, whether an elephant or a bird. To me, the only good cage is an empty cage.

It is a terrible indictment against the human race that it's possible for such places of brutality to exist.

Lawrence Anthony

until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.