Suzy Kassem Quotes

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

We're like everybody else. We hurt like everybody.

To understand all is to forgive all.

With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

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.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

Sometimes people just need to feel heard, and being an actor has taught me to really listen.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.