Quotes about Compassion
Making Compassionate Decisions: The Role of Empathy in Decision Making READING TIME: 19 MINUTES "The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.
— Barack Obama
Still, in the aggregate, at least, I wanted somehow to save them—send them to school, give them a trade, drain them of the hate that had been filling their heads.
— Barack Obama
We will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish.
— Barack Obama
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the Bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending the neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Because nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.
— Barbara Kingsolver
God speaks for the silent man.
— Barbara Kingsolver
God hates us, I said. Don't blame God for what ants have to do. We all get hungry. Congolese people are not so different from Congolese ants. They have to swarm over a village and eat other people alive? When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Good people don't give up on the ones they love.
— Barbara Kingsolver
What I'm saying is nobody feels sorry for anybody anymore, nobody even pretends they do. Not even the President. It's like it's become unpatriotic.
— Barbara Kingsolver