30 quotes
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
— Plato
“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside someone elses skin”
— Frederick Buechner
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster.”
— Og Mandino
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
— Unknown
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“I think we all have empathy but we may not all have enough courage to display it through compassion”
— Mary Angelou
“One of the criticisms I have faced over the years is that I am not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow I am too empathetic. I wholly reject those criticisms.”
— Jacinda Ardern
“The emperor who does not understand the feelings of his subjects cannot long retain the loyalty of his people.”
— Chanakya
“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
— Alexander Pope
“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”
— John Stuart Mill
“The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
— Harper Lee
“The best leaders listen long enough to hear what is not being said.”
— Anonymous
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.”
— Thucydides
“Be kind for everyone you meet within your family is fighting a hard battle.”
— Socrates
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
— Aristotle
“Writers dont write from experience though many are reluctant to admit that they dont. If you wrote from experience youd get maybe one book maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy and creativity.”
— Nikki Giovanni
“I do not ask the wounded person how they feel I myself become the wounded person through compassion”
— Walt Whitman
“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
— Ronald Reagan
“Empowerment through empathy is the key to healing communities”
— Tarana Burke
“I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou
“Empathy and social skills are social intelligence the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence”
— Daniel Goleman
“He who feels no compassion will receive none.”
— Sa'di Shirazi
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility and bring peace.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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