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Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it. — Tiffany Madison

You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job. — Last Man Standing

Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

empathy is more powerful than sympathy — Angie Thomas

If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person. — Ellen J. Barrier

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. — Criss Jami

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise. — Michael K. Williams

Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt ... you're a better witness for what's beautiful. — Matt De La Pena

Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis — Christopher Paolini

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

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy. — Vanessa Hudgens

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

Anguish is the universal language — Alice Fulton

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

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you. — Brian A. Jackson

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive. — Parker J. Palmer

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

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

Your tears for others will float you closer toward God. — Shannon L. Alder

Compassion, empathy and love are the real pillars we need to build with in ourselves to become human. — Loknath

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand. — Jules Verne

Choose empathy over apathy. — Mango Wodzak

The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that. — Taylor Stevens

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent. — Paul Bloom

Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve. — Dawn Hammill

I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy. — Victoria Moran

Until you have stood in another woman's stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in. — Shannon L. Alder

Justice without compassion was the destroyer of morality, a slayer blind to empathy. — Steven Erikson

Not one tear of His child is ever shed without evoking the most heartfelt empathy and compassion of God. — Michael Rydelnik

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

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

Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told. — Shannon L. Alder

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

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. — Criss Jami

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people. — Tim Kreider

Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy. — IO Tillett Wright

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. — Cheryl Strayed

Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding. — Gavin Hood

There is no small act of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer. — Paul Haggis

Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone's life. — Amit Ray

I could really use someone else's smile today. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Truth is on the side of compassion. — Christina Hoff Sommers

If you're treating people poorly then you're not emulating God's love. God always resides with the broken hearted. — Shannon L. Alder

In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose. — Jana Elston

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men. — Richelle E. Goodrich

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy. — Frans De Waal

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth. — Sanober Khan

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges. — Frederick Lenz

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either. — Dean Koontz

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard. — Geraldine Brooks

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy. — Michael Greger

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery! — Charles Dickens

Pretend that you are the soul inside everyone you meet. — Tom Bliss

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect. — Dale Carnegie

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand. — E. M. Forster

Walk with me for a while, my friend - you in my shoes, I in yours - and then let us talk. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering. — Dalai Lama

People like it when others fail and suffer. They get assured they are not alone in that predicament — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Empathy is the door to wisdom. — Suzy Kassem

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

As a kid my heart would break for the villains. — Criss Jami

Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage. — Richelle E. Goodrich

They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened. — Aisha Mirza

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids. — Brimstone

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

One does not remember one's own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us — Anna Funder

The truth is, most people don't want advice - they want empathy and compassion. — Debra Fine

It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life. — Doreen Orion

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. — Desmond Tutu

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95) — Karen Armstrong

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

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

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

Understanding Subtle & Not-So-Subtle Motivations, Helps Grow Consideration, Empathy & Compassion, Which Leads to Forgiveness — Miriam Sachael

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist. — Khalil Gibran

When we take into consideration the needs of both ourselves and others, we communicate honestly, compassionately and effectively. — Aletheia Luna

No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

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

Courage gives us a voice and compassion gives us an ear. Without both, there is no opportunity for empathy and connection. — Brene Brown

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world. — Pankaj Mishra

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy. — Bryant McGill

The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged. — Rob Liano

Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed. — Robert A. Burton

Compassion can be learned through example — Renae A. Sauter

I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length. — Mike Weaver

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do. — Richard Brookhiser

I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken. — Unknown

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions. — Gerard De Marigny

You can unlock spiritual things only from within. — Richard Rohr

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. — Tahereh Mafi

I show up for my fellow man by sharing my inner wealth. I generously give out compassion and acceptance wherever I go. — Renae A. Sauter

A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours. — Shannon L. Alder

There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love. — Gregory J. Boyle

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective. — Ben Parr

I am not interested in whether you have stood with the great; I am interested in whether you have sat with the broken. — Unknown