Top 100 Compassion Empathy Quotes
#1. Compassion, empathy and love are the real pillars we need to build with in ourselves to become human.
Loknath
#2. Manners are really the basis for how we treat other people - manners are born out of compassion, empathy, the "golden rule." Manners are, quite simply, making people feel welcome, comfortable, and respected.
Brian Grazer
#3. I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#4. Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets.
Solange Nicole
#5. Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed.
Robert A. Burton
#6. One does not remember one's own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
Anna Funder
#7. The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
Criss Jami
#8. Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually.
Dalai Lama XIV
#9. If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.
Ellen J. Barrier
#10. It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
Desmond Tutu
#11. When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of 'being human' and the collective challenges we all face, it makes life much easier to deal with, especially when met with overbearing behaviour.
Christopher Dines
#12. If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#15. We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
Elizabeth Goudge
#16. We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
Barack Obama
#17. For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.
Criss Jami
#18. To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)
Stephen Batchelor
#19. Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt ... you're a better witness for what's beautiful.
Matt De La Pena
#20. When we take into consideration the needs of both ourselves and others, we communicate honestly, compassionately and effectively.
Aletheia Luna
#21. Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#22. Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
Dean Koontz
#24. People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences.
Paul Bloom
#25. As a kid my heart would break for the villains.
Criss Jami
#26. You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.
Dean Koontz
#27. If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, ... a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.
Frans De Waal
#28. I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.
Lori Lansens
#29. While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement and the love of others who are travelling, or have travelled, this terrain - or those who having lived life long and deep and can meet us there, with wisdom and compassion.
Meryn G. Callander
#30. Simple kindness as a means to no other end than itself is not something that springs up and flourishes on its own. Compassion is cultivated. Empathy needs watching over. It's not enough to simply plant the seeds. Their fruits are not native to the soil. Left to itself, the untended heart grows cold.
Marc Parent
#31. Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.
Gina Maranto
#32. To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.
Gerard De Marigny
#33. So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
Stephen L. Carter
#34. One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#35. What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.
Tim Kreider
#37. You can unlock spiritual things only from within.
Richard Rohr
#38. As we learn to embrace our authentic longings and feelings - and cultivate self-empathy and the corresponding compassion toward others - our society will gradually evolve in a direction that is more tolerant, humane, and enlightened.
John Amodeo
#39. Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone's life.
Amit Ray
#40. You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
Paul Haggis
#41. Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.
Aspen Baker
#42. If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action.
Christopher Dines
#45. I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.
Peter Hedges
#46. Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
Kafu Nagai
#47. An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.
Sanober Khan
#48. I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.
Victoria Moran
#49. Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list .
Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list?
Earl: What?
Mooch: Empathy and compassion.
Patrick McDonnell
#51. The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.
Bryant McGill
#52. If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labour.
George Eliot
#53. Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.
Brent L. Top
#54. Everything is going to be alright' doesn't mean stubbing your toe won't hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle
Brian A. Jackson
#55. Walk with me for a while, my friend - you in my shoes, I in yours - and then let us talk.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#56. I am not interested in whether you have stood with the great; I am interested in whether you have sat with the broken.
Unknown
#57. If empathy is the skill or ability to tap into our own experiences in order to connect with an experience someone is relating to us, compassion is the willingness to be open to this process.
Brene Brown
#58. I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.
David Gregory
#59. When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?
Vironika Tugaleva
#60. Pretend that you are the soul inside everyone you meet.
Tom Bliss
#61. When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world. And thus, to attend to one's own suffering is the most selfless act.
Vironika Tugaleva
#62. If you can leave a relationship with love, empathy, and compassion, without any thoughts of revenge, hatred, or fear, that is how you let go.
Brian L. Weiss
#63. There are basically two kinds of people: those who have empathy and care about others and those who don't. The ones who don't are creating most of the problems in the world.
Laurence Overmire
#64. Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.
Tiffany Madison
#65. We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.
Pankaj Mishra
#67. Justice without compassion was the destroyer of morality, a slayer blind to empathy.
Steven Erikson
#68. When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words:
'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning prayers in your house?'
'I am sorry ... I fear not.'
'You see where you are now!
Charles Ricketts
#69. The time has come for women and men to band together to jointly create gender harmony. We must gather in mixed group to plumb new depths of relational awareness, courageous truth-telling, compassionate listening, empathic sensitivity, and mutual healing.
William Keepin
#70. A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?
Ron Suskind
#71. I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.
Michael K. Williams
#72. I grew up with a lot of compassion and empathy. I notice when I meet other friends of mine that were raised Christian sometimes we have similar model of sensitivity, whether to our advantage or disadvantage.
Weyes Blood
#73. In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose.
Jana Elston
#74. If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.
Frans De Waal
#76. When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.
Shannon L. Alder
#77. None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race.
Jason Versey
#78. How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Arthur Schopenhauer
#79. Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#80. The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.
Vironika Tugaleva
#81. The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.
Emmuska Orczy
#82. By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.
Dale Carnegie
#83. Not one tear of His child is ever shed without evoking the most heartfelt empathy and compassion of God.
Michael Rydelnik
#84. A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human equality, and for civilization instead of savagery.
Mohsin Hamid
#85. The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
John Connolly
#86. The truth is, most people don't want advice - they want empathy and compassion.
Debra Fine
#87. Understanding Subtle & Not-So-Subtle Motivations, Helps Grow Consideration, Empathy & Compassion, Which Leads to Forgiveness
Miriam Sachael
#88. I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.
Rachel Caine
#89. If you're treating people poorly then you're not emulating God's love. God always resides with the broken hearted.
Shannon L. Alder
#90. There are many roads towards war but just one towards peace ... which must begin with a heart that has compassion and empathy for all of humanity's children!
Timothy Pina
#91. God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.
Criss Jami
#92. Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.
Michael Greger
#93. When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?
Ben Carson
#94. The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
Brimstone
#95. Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.
Sandra Vischer
#96. Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.
Daniel Keyes
#97. Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
Sam Harris
#99. I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.
Hazel Hawke
#100. No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
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