Catherine McAuley Quotes

Let our children be taught love love love.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

I love helping the kids.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Other species help children develop empathy.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

Created beings must be instructed in (what concerns) their welfare without giving them pain, and sweet and gentle speech must be used…

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think it just as important that we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. ... for so many years gentle has been equated with weakness but it requires more strength to be gentle. So it's the every day encounters of life that I think we prepare children for and prepare them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.

Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.

Pure love is the chief manifestation of education.

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.