Quotes About Compassion

What gentle, loving, and patient creatures we ought to be, when we fully realize what grace does for us.

The paradox is that we can only truly love each other when we also love something beyond each other.

En el espíritu de Jung, la actitud más útil y curativa a adoptar cuando se trata de la sombra es una de amor y aceptación. Sé curioso pero amable. Tu objetivo al identificar la (posible) sombra de alguien no es atraparlos, hacer que se les acerque o descubrir un botón que puedas presionar para tu propio beneficio.

By practicing compassion, you destroy all those artificial barriers and you truly understand that we all bleed red.

Show appropriate levels of emotional reaction. If you're able to do this properly, this lets them know that you care about what they're talking about. Also, what they are saying is as important to you as it is to them.

One of the most practical ways you can do this is to simply look at people as blood relatives. Just as you would care about a little brother and a little sister, develop a way of caring for other people like they're members of your family.

Compassion, in an ideal sense, is your ability to put yourself in other people's shoes regardless of what they look like, regardless of what they believe, regardless of whether they believe in God or not, or which god they believe in, and regardless of whether they're male, female, or patriotic. As long as they're human beings, the ideal vision of compassion is being able to feel other people's pain.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie

if you give them the opportunity to create a three-dimensional identity for themselves, you might find aspects of them that you actually enjoy or admire—or at least defensible justification for why they are the way they are.

Step out of your own head, and look at the world based on what's important to others.

it's your actual act of service and going out of your way that makes you stand apart from everybody else.

Grant, O Lord, that none may love Thee less this day because of me; that never a word or act of mine may turn one soul from Thee; and, ever daring, yet one more grace would I implore: that many souls this day, because of me, may love Thee more. Amen.42

I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.

This is the nature of people, they unerringly select as their victim the one who most needs their warmth.

Altri, come lui, proprio prima della mia nascita, avevano patito pene di ogni sorta per consentire a noi di provare soltanto piccoli dispiaceri.

You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.

And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.

Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But...you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

Four lines, and the world went quiet. I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum , read the first line. I miss being your friend , read the second. Are you okay? read the third. I see you , read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.

I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.

So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time.

The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in the world." ... "The mistake of every adult, though, is to think darkness and hardship aren't important to young people because we'll grow out of it. Who cares if we will? Life is happening to us now, just like it's happening to you.

And love and care have all kinds of different faces, and within them, there's room for understanding, and for forgiveness, and for more.