Richard Steele Quotes

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

We all have that capacity to reach out to people we don't even know and care about them ...

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

… bleeding hearts

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

We're a compassionate nation.

I actually really love people.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.