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Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

Lucinda Williams

Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.

Gautama Buddha

In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don’t we try being kind?

Wayne Dyer

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

Leo Tolstoy

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Jack Kornfield

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

Jack Kornfield

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

Heinz Kohut

No, Sherlock doesn’t need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart.

Guy Adams

Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness

Amit Abraham

We know how God would act if he were in our place – he has been in our place.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Alain de Botton

Only someone who’d never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

Ashley Montagu

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Samuel Richardson

You have to see through one’s faults before you see their need.

Andre Holland

I’ve learned… That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

Andy Rooney

I’ve learned that under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

Andy Rooney

You don’t change people’s hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.

Anne Douglas Sedgwick

You don’t have to tell people what they’re doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.

Joel Osteen

…one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Mark Twain

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person’s pain.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

An affective response more appropriate to another’s situation than one’s own.

Martin Hoffman

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