Quotes About Compassion

Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you.

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

We give empathy to others for our own benefit.

They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.

Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.

Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.

it's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

The pain of one human being to another cannot be translated through words and for that I am certain, it will never be truly experienced again.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.