Quotes About Compassion

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.

Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.

To empathize with these patients, to put yourself in their shoes, may be a bit too existentially disconcerting. And so doctors unconsciously try to protect themselves by widening the moat between their own good health and their patients' dauntingly mortal conditions

In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's possible to intuit what that person's suffering might feel like.

Emptying the ocean with a thimble again, our thimbles so tiny, and the ocean of need so huge.

The homeless need so many things from us. In addition to housing, medical care, mental health care, and job training, they need a strong hand to help them up. And aside from what we can do practically, we need to share our strength and give them hope: the hope that things can change, and the courage to hang on.

Rape in any form is never okay, no matter who the rapist is.

Don't hate anyone," Beata said quietly. "It's too much work. And it only poisons you.

Whoever saves one life, saves a world entire." —Talmud

followed her outside, deeply moved.

I'm there to fight the good fight. To defend the people who need it and protect people from being discriminated against, or being abused by bad laws. You always have to fight the good fight

May your impact on others be kind, theirs on you always loving, and may you always, always know and remember how infinitely I love you, with all my heart, now and forever.

Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.

I'm sorry, Mother," she said quietly. "I didn't realize you cared about him that much." She suddenly understood what she had done and what it had cost her mother. She felt guilty for the first time.

He had enormous compassion for the suffering of others, which often came from having suffered oneself. But he was starting a new life in Denver, and opening his eyes to life again.

What blesses one blesses all.' I believe that. Your taking the job is a blessing for me and The Lily Pad, and hopefully it will be a blessing for you and your kids too." The Lily Pad had already blessed a lot of people—Joe, Carole, and all the people Bill had hired so far. And it would bless all the kids who stayed there for rehab. It had only begun to bless all those involved.

She's all right now. We just want to get her

here." "Yeah," she said, as tears rolled down her cheeks again, "and you love Liz too. I could see it." She started to sob then and buried her face in his

forgives me my mistakes. Even in the same family, they're very different people. And it's a miracle if you get it right even some of the time, no matter how hard you try.

You just do the best you can and love them a lot, no matter what." And let them go when it was time, which was the hardest of all.

generous statement

Estéril es la persona que no puede amar, que no puede dar nada, que vive encerrada en sí misma. Todo eso es lo que importa y nada de eso eres tú, Sam. Tú no eres así.

thinking how hard it must be to be a woman, always having to be strong and comfort others, and how lonely it was to be a man. —