Hazel Keech Quotes

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

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.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

You just have to forgive them for being men.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.