Quotes About Compassion

the question "Why?" only adds to their problem. In addition to their original distress, they must now analyze the cause and come up with a reasonable explanation.

when our words are infused with our real feelings of empathy that they speak directly to a child's heart.

So there you have it—four possible ways to give first aid to a child in distress: by listening with full attention, by acknowledging his feelings with a word, by giving a name to his feelings, and by granting him his wishes in fantasy.

TO HELP WITH FEELINGS 1. Listen with full attention. 2. Acknowledge their feelings with a word—"Oh" . . . "Mmm" . . . "I see." 3. Give their feelings a name. 4. Give them their wishes in fantasy.

became aware of how far gone I was when I found myself trying to Scotch-tape a broken pretzel together to stop my four-year-old from crying.

I want my kids to know that they're entitled to be miserable without their mother falling apart.

The more you try to push a child's unhappy feelings away, the more he becomes stuck in them.

But let someone really listen, let someone acknowledge my inner pain and give me a chance to talk more about what's troubling me, and I begin to feel less upset, less confused, more able to cope with my feelings and my problem.

If someone really listens, acknowledges my emotional pain, and gives me the opportunity to talk more about it, I then "begin to feel less upset.

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

others went back home with sheep and cattle, while the An??r took God's Messenger. He finished his words by saying: "If the whole world went one way and the An??r went another way, I would go with the Ansar. May God have mercy on the An??r, their children and grandchildren.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

In order not to despair completely of the people with whom I lived, I had to separate the outward appearances of their lives from the reasons why they developed that way. Then I could bear everything without discouragement.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.

You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life" Margot said. I smiled at her, not fully understanding what she was saying but feeling a small ping of comprehension, an olive pit smacking the wall of my consciousness. "You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself" Margot promised.

You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life," Margot said.

The way to get people to love you is to show them that you love them.

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.