Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Some public officials are blessed - you can't acquire this, but you are blessed with the gift of empathy, being able to empathize with those who are suffering.

I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.

I love everybody. When someone hurts, I hurt.

In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.

Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.

You never know how many people are compassionate about something, especially when it's not happening to you. You just hope somebody's out there helping.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.