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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.
On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.
Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs.
If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.
I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.
I have tremendous empathy for people who are faced with any kind of a chronic problem. Sometimes when we're in this situation, it's as though our mind has us believe that if we ruminate about the pain we'll find a way out.
The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.
I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.
I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.
You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to help, whether that's a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you're building.
We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.
I'm hopeful for a world with more love, acceptance, and compassion for others.
Empathy is much bigger than sympathy. When the character is empathised with, that means you have succeeded as an actor. So even if it's a villain, the audiences don't hate you... they understand why you have turned into a villain.
In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
It's great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.
His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.
I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.
The rage of someone who continues to strive so hard and work so hard but is interrupted every day by society, by racism, by white supremacy, by the patriarchy - how can you not feel empathy?
I have always had tremendous amount of patience, compassion and forgiveness.
True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.
Disability is articulated as a struggle, an unnecessary burden that one must overcome to the soundtrack of a string crescendo. But disabled lives are multi-faceted - brimming with personality, pride, ambition, love, empathy, and wit.
...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.
Here's what I think is good about 'Ted Lasso' and what I'm proud of in it, as a writer: It's about kindness and teamwork and empathy, and being curious and not judgmental, but it does all of that through storytelling and plot.
It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.
Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.
I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy.
Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.
I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.
I think I lead with empathy and connection to our people. I find that the most effective leadership style for me is to just talk and listen. It sounds simple, but it's so effective.
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.
There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion
Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
Compassion
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I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion
So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus on the cross. Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity!
If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.
The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone's needs.
Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.
The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.
Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...
