Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

There's a power in empathy.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

Compassion takes imagination.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.

I can feel what you’re feeling now — and you are worth it.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

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

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.