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By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion. — Nhat Hanh

We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others. — Curtis Sittenfeld

As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion. — Nancy Pearcey

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. — Nhat Hanh

That tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals ... — Marquis De Sade

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides. — Kyan Douglas

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others. — Deepak Chopra

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed. — Lorii Myers

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha. — Nhat Hanh

Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others. — Eraldo Banovac

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding. — Isobelle Carmody

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers ... — Rasheed Ogunlaru

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness. — Thomas S. Monson

Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion. — Shannon L. Alder

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding. — Bryant McGill

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Fear feeds off ignorance, whereas compassion and lucidity flower from understanding. — Thich Nhat Hanh

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

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently. — Criss Jami

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life. — Shannon L. Alder

Anguish is the universal language — Alice Fulton

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

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery. — Anthony Mackie

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

Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness — Amit Abraham

We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion. — Kilroy J. Oldster

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

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

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

She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief. — Donna Tartt

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias. — Criss Jami

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

Without suffering, we do not have the opportunity to cultivate compassion and understanding; and without understanding, there can be no true love. So — Thich Nhat Hanh

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion. — Francis A. Schaeffer

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

Let understanding, compassion, and kindness be the foundation of our religion and Earth be our place of worship. — Charles F. Glassman

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion. — Criss Jami

He didn't deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given. — V.S. Carnes

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

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

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. — Sharon Salzberg

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. — Frank Portman

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

To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion. — Nhat Hanh

If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world. — Nhat Hanh

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. — Dalai Lama XIV

Just because it had happened before didn't mean it wasn't serious. It didn't mean he didn't need them. — Rainbow Rowell

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

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. — Erma Bombeck

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president. — Hillary Clinton

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand. — Rob Liano

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. — Richard Feynman

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. — Paul D. Boyer

Through the mind and judgment,
it is not possible to understand
oneself and others.
True understanding is
a compassionate heart. — Human Angels

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us? — Debbie Ford

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion. — Nhat Hanh

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

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do. — Vironika Tugaleva

All beliefs are equally valid. — Alaric Hutchinson

Empathy is the door to wisdom. — Suzy Kassem

Every human being has to have compassion and try to be understanding, and that goes double for people who share your blood, — Kristen Ashley

The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women. — Stephen Gaskin

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding. — Deepak Chopra

The only way to enhance one's power in the world is by increasing one's integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion. — David R. Hawkins

Love is the beginning of understanding. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others — Abbi Glines

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. — R. Scott Bakker

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. — Criss Jami

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

I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion. — Emmanuelle Bercot

Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion. — Jane Austen

When Jesus was moved by compassion, it was not just a feeling he had, but an understanding and conviction of what those people meant to the Father. — Shawn Bolz

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness. — Goldie Hawn

Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person. — Shannon L. Alder

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. — Aleister Crowley

True love is born from understanding. — Gautama Buddha

Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding. — Bryant McGill

Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us — Kishore Bansal

Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people's shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls. — Kellie Elmore

I feel sad for the righteous man who cannot find understanding or compassion for a magnificent sinner like me. — David Zailer

Righteousness doesn't mean being right. It means showing love, compassion and understanding no matter what you think is right. — L.J. Vanier

Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know, and we are all here to learn and grow. — Alaric Hutchinson

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion. — Socrates

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love. — Amit Ray

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

Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong. — Shannon L. Alder

War never can bring peace; only understanding, love, kindness and compassion can do that. — Debasish Mridha

Ignorance is an illusion; we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance. — Alaric Hutchinson

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love. — Jane Goodall