1. “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
2. “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 nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.” ~ John Connolly
3. “The seeds of care and empathy are built into every human being and a variety of soils and fertilizers will allow those same seeds to grow and flourish.” ~ Gudjon Bergmann
4. “Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you’re not alone.” ~ Brene Brown
5. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ~ Maya Angelou
6. “Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.” ~ Max Carver
7. “I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” ~ Maya Angelou
8. “It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.” ~ Dalai Lama
9. “It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
10. “Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.” ~ Daniel Goleman
11. “Let our hearts be stretched out in compassion toward others, for everyone is walking his or her own difficult path.” ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
12. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” ~ Jesse Jackson
13. “You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” ~ John Steinbeck
14. “Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” ~ Helen Keller
15. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama
16. When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.” ~ Stephen Covey
17. “A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV
18. “When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives.” ~ Kristin Neff
19. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~ Mother Teresa
20. “Empathy is like giving someone a psychological hug.” ~ Lawrence J
21. “There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.” ~ Heather Wolf
22. “Until you have real compassion, you cannot recognize love.” ~ Bob Thurman
23. “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?” ~ Marcus Aurelius
24. “Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver
25. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” ~ Albert Einstein
26. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou
27. “Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of humankind.” ~ Baruch Spinoza
28. “Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” ~ Jack Kornfield
29. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.” ~ Jesse Jackson
30. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ~ Plato
31. “Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.” ~ Rachael Joy Scott
32. “Empathy is the gateway; compassion is the way.” ~ Scott Perry
33. “The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.” ~ Mehmet Oz
34. “Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.” ~ Eric Zorn
35. “Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” ~ Mohsin Hamid
36. “Make no judgments where you have no compassion.” ~ Anne McCaffrey
37. “When we match compassion with purpose, we being to conquer the world.” ~ Zachariah Thompson
38. “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
39. “There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. “―Bishop Robert South
40. “It is the weak that expresses aggressiveness to show strength. But real strength, it’s in the gentle.” ~ Nurudeen Ushawu
41. “Wearing another’s skin is the most effective way to learn sympathy.” ~ A G Howard
42. “It is a man’s sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
43. “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ~ Tahereh Mafi
44. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” ~ Mother Theresa
45. “Compassion is the basis of all morality”― Arthur Schopenhauer
46. “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.” ~ Buddha
47. “Taking time to relax every day, spending quality time with friends, and practicing mindfulness are some of the tried and tested ways of developing self-compassion.” ~ Dr. Prem Jagyasi
48. “When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.” ~ Criss Jami
49. “We can’t heal the world today but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness.” ~ Mary Davis
50. “Having compassion for yourself means that you honor and accept your humanness.” ~ Kristen Neff
51. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
52. “Compassion is about giving all the love that you’ve got.” ~ Cheryl Strayed
53. “Practicing kindness increases our ability to be empathetic. It helps keep our hearts open. And that, truly, is the best way to live.” ~ Kristi Bowman
54. “When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.” ~ Susan Sarandon
55. “In compassion, when we feel with the other, we dethrone ourselves from the center of our world and we put another person there.” ~ Karen Armstrong
56. “Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves.” ~ Pema Chodron
57. “Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable.” ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
58. “The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” ~ Meryl Streep
59. “Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.” ~ Dalai Lama
60. “Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and yourself.” ~ Carl R. Rogers
61. “Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.” ~ Dalai Lama
62. “I love this life and even if to be taken from me, I will love that you have yours. Cherish all life, for life, is worth cherishing.” ~ Tom Althouse
63. “Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.” ~ Alfred Adler
64. “What you don’t realize is that the world does not need more perfection. It needs more compassion and empathy.” ~ Tessa Dare
65. “Empathy is connection; it’s a ladder out of the shame hole” – Brené Brown
66. “Empathy is a connection; it’s a ladder out of the shame hole.” ~ Brené Brown
67. “It’s the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else’s pain.” ― Pat Barker
68. “The highest form of knowledge is empathy.” ~ Bill Bullard
69. “In separateness lies the world’s great misery, in compassion lies the world’s true strength.” ~ Buddha
70. “The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.” ~ Carl Rogers
71. “The little things you do can be very significant to others.” ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
72. “Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.” ~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
73. “Compassion is the basis of morality.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
74. “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” ~ John Holmes
75. “Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.” ~ Leslie Jamison
76. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” ~ Dalai Lama
77. “Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
78. “Love and compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.” ~ Dalai Lama
79. “Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.” ~ Anderson Cooper
80. “We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.” ~ Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
81. “It is true that I am endowed with an absurd sensitiveness, what scratches others tears me to pieces.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
82. “If you want more kindness in the world, put some there.” ~ Zero Dean
83. “Compassion is at the heart of every little thing we do. It is the dearest quality we possess. Yet all too often it can be cast aside with consequences too tragic to speak of. To lose our compassion, we lose what it is to be human.” ~ Anonymous
84. “Experiencing terrible pain opens our hearts and minds to express compassion for other people and communion with ourselves.” ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
85. Every compassionate act makes large the world.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
86. “Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.” ~ Dalai Lama
87. “Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
88. “We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.” ~ Bill Drayton
89. “Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.” ~ Albert Einstein
90. “Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
91. “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
92. “When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.” ~ Euripides
93. “Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive.” ~ Ken Poirot
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