Quotes About Compassion

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

You have to experience grace to be one who knows how to give it.

When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.

Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.

Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.

GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.

Loving yourself means being your own best friend, standing by yourself at all times, including times of failure; being there for yourself no matter what.

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.