Seneca the Younger Quotes

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

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

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

We've got to be kind.

Kindness and patience were always called for.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.