Quotes About Compassion

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.

It's never clear to me why it's so hard for people to say sorry. It's a simple word, just two syllables and its positive impact is enormous.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I'd lead an effort to defend the symbol of the Republican Party. But when I saw the cruelty that Ringling inflicts on elephants every day across the country, I had to speak up.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

People aren't inherently sympathetic.

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

Baby girls, as young as 12 months old, respond more empathically to the distress of other people, showing greater concern through more sad looks, sympathetic vocalisations and comforting. This echoes what you find in adulthood: more women report frequently sharing the emotional distress of their friends.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.

People have very difficult lives. We can judge them for making the wrong decisions, but if you look harder and understand that these lives can be difficult, hopefully you're at least a bit more sympathetic to the decisions these people have to make.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies have always been with the struggling mass.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.