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Quotes About Compassion

Nothing human was worth denying. Even if it was unspeakably ugly, we could learn from it, couldn't we? Or could we? I never questioned that at all.
~ Erica Jong
Both dogs and people are nicer after hitting bottom.
~ Erica Jong
What the fuck do you know about chemo? Only what I see in movies. And I mean movies like Love Story and Beaches.I wasn't talking about the Exorcist.You an ass. A total ass. But I'm an ass who'll sit next to you while you vomit. that kind of ass is few and far between,my little pea soup spewing devil child.
~ Erica Orloff
Ce matou-là ne fait pas de différences entre les câlins français et les câlins allemands, murmura Bernstein. Il n'a rien compris à la guerre. - C'est-à-dire qu'il a tout compris.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Prietenia deseneaz? calea dreapt? a iubirii.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Nessuno può evitare di soffrire.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
GândeÈ™te-te puÈ›in Oscar. De cine te simÈ›i tu mai apropiat, de un Dumnezeu care nu simte nimic sau de un Dumnezeu care sufer?? - De cel care sufer?, normal. Dar dac-aÈ™ fi fost în locul lui, dac-aÈ™ fi fost Dumnezeu, dac? aÈ™ fi avut puterile lui, m-aÈ™ fi aranjat s? nu suf?r. - Nimeni nu poate s? scape de suferin??. Nici Dumnezeu, nici tu. Nici p?rinÈ›ii t?i, nici eu.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Il ne s'agissait ni d'un coup de foudre amoureux, ni d'un coup de foudre amical, mais d'un coup de foudre ... comment dire ... humain.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Yani bu durum sebebiyle anormal olan ne olursa olsun, biz ikimiz normaliz.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Kindness needs greater effort than dark thinking.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
J'admets la part de l'autre dans la constitution de mon destin.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Si c'est un homme, c'est mon prochain, pas mon lointain.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Ce matou-là ne fait pas de différence entre les câlins français et les câlins allemands. [...] Il n'a rien compris à la guerre. -C'est à dire qu'il a tout compris.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Tôi nghÄ© là có hai lo?i quái v?t trên cõi ??i này: nh?ng k? ch? nghÄ© ??n mình và nh?ng k? ch? nghÄ© ??n ng??i khác. Nói khác Ä'i nh?ng k? kh?n n?n v? ká»· và nh?ng k? kh?n n?n v? tha.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
~ Erich Fromm
People do not see that the main question is not : Am I loved? which is to a large extent the question : Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired? The main question is: Can I love?
~ Erich Fromm
Wenn ich zu einem anderen sagen kann: Ich liebe dich, muss ich auch sagen können: Ich liebe in dir auch alle anderen, ich liebe durch dich die ganze Welt, ich liebe in dir auch mich selbst.
~ Erich Fromm
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
~ Erich Fromm
Die meisten Menschen sehen das Problem der Liebe in erster Linie als das Problem, selbst geliebt zu werden, statt zu lieben und lieben zu können.
~ Erich Fromm
Meister Eckhart on this topic: "If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is a great and righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally."[14]
~ Erich Fromm
Erkenntnis] ist nur möglich, wenn ich mein eigenes Interesse transzendiere und den anderen so sehe, wie er wirklich ist.
~ Erich Fromm
If I truly love one person I love all persons, I love the world, I love life. If I can say to somebody else, I love you, I must be able to say, I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.
~ Erich Fromm
realists who have a special word for each type of automobile, but only the one word "love" to express the most varied kinds of affective experience.
~ Erich Fromm
Not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories, they listen to hundreds of trashy songs about love—yet hardly anyone thinks that there is anything that needs to be learned about love. This
~ Erich Fromm