Quotes about Compassion

God sees the world through the eyes of those most oppressed.

What matters is how well we have loved.

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.

inexhaustible...our capacity to exempt from mercy those who look different or pray to a different God.

The idea that our common humanity mattered more than our differences was stitched into my DNA.

If people can learn to hate they can learn to love.

Thanks for sticking with this," Axe said, his voice choked up. I put my arm around him, feeling my own emotions swell. "This is why we do the work," I said. "This. Right here.

Duty compels us to care about people that we will never meet.

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.

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.

We will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.