Quotes About Compassion

No existe ningún hombre en el mundo que merezca que un corazón de mujer se destroce por él. Un hombre, aún cuando se cree enamorado apasionadamente, encontrará siempre otra mujer para consolarse. Una mujer nunca. Sissi, Emperatriz de Austria.

Después de haberlos visto personalmente, comencé a cambiar mi actitud frente a ellos. Empecé a compadecerlos porque eran seres humanos...Concebí incluso la idea de dejarles escapar o hacer algo para liberarles. Sobre la familia Imperial Rusa.

Some of them were confused and angry, but given the same circumstances, I was convinced that I would have turned out just like them. It was the difference in where we were born, and to whom, that separated us---not the difference of who we were.

We have a Savior Who took on our humanity to take on our shame. We have a God Who knows the pain of betrayal, abandonment, humiliation, and violence, Who shows us that wounds can be healed and can be purified. It's okay if your past is messy.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

What I do know is that love, real love, true unconditional love, transcends age, race, and religious beliefs. It sees the good, focuses on the good, and constantly emphasizes it.

If you want self-esteem." "Do estimable acts" ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir

We don't always recognize mercy when we see it. It isn't always what we want or think we need, but it's there. It's here.

Make your fellow men know by your actions in the days when you can reach them and help them, you appreciate their real worth. It will solve every problem of living.

I happen to like Philippians 4:6, but I also don't like how it is used as a "clobber verse" to make anxious people feel like they're doing something wrong or, even worse, that there is something wrong about them. As with most clobber verses, in this situation it is being used out of context.

There's one highly effective intervention only you can deliver in a dosage more potent than any secular medical professional could deliver: you can provide acceptance. Radical, loving, compassionate acceptance. The "Jesus touching the leper" kind of acceptance. The acceptance that is expressed with hugs, reassuring pats, and sometimes just the kind of silent but loving physical presence of a parent that anxious children can feel in their bones.

side. "Not good," he replied, "but I'll live." "Well, quick now, get on Chancer while I see to Master Hogan," Drew whispered. As Whitley grabbed the horse by the reins, Drew scrambled over to the scout, who lay slumped in a bed of bracken. "Get gone," said the old ranger, barely audible. The color had drained from his face, and his lips were pale and bloodless.

There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.

Reconciliation and social justice are two sides of the same coin.

Sometimes at night, when I was alone, or when I was at the pool, in the quiet stillness underwater, my mind would go to that place. To the hospital, to the people there. It was as if my heart could travel, over the miles, over the months that had passed, and I was back with her. Olivia

But doing others' work for them, even emotional work, robs them of the right to feel their feelings and heal their own pain and issues. We can only learn from our own problems; we can heal only issues that are our own. Think about how different you'd feel if you were free of all those shoulds and instead focused on your own coulds. That's the goal of establishing the correct energetic boundaries.

Pink quartz creates a more loving atmosphere; it is highly helpful for healers who don't want to fight power with power, but instead share love and compassion.

The healing forces go out, and what replaces them but the energy that others are trying to get rid of. Out goes the energetic cure for the other person's cold, and chances are, in comes the energy of cold itself. Out goes your compassion and wisdom, and in comes the other person's depression and confusion. The hardest part of being a healer isn't that you are helping; you like helping. It's that you become burdened with the problems you are fixing.

If psychically sensitive, we'll be aware of every mood, activity, or need of the living and the dead, yet have no one taking care of us. Healers are often the worst off, because the world is full of people happy to deposit their problems in someone else's energy field and steal love in return. And those of us sensitive to the environment will feel for every living being everywhere, but lack the power to help the great or the small.

We only attract people to us that we can help.

Wisdom is passionate and heartfelt, giving rise to compassion and love.

She was open to love, but she was best at managing her own happiness; it was other people's happiness that sunk her.