Quotes about Compassion

nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.

If I got to make just one law, it would be that the men who make the decisions to drop bombs would first, every time, have to spend one whole day taking care of a baby. We were not made to do this killing thing. I swear. Back up. It's a big mistake.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world... Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feeling to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.

By accepting people you're not condoning their weakness or agreeing with their opinion; you're simply affirming their intrinsic worth.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Principle of making what is important to the other person as important to you as the other person is to you.

The message sent to one is truly sent to all because everyone is a "one," and they know that if you treat one that way, all it takes is a change of circumstances and you'll treat them that way, too.

Just listen and seek to understand.

It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.