James Haven Quotes

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

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

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

The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did not match. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out the mistake, but was afraid he would hurt her. So, during the two hours they spent walking through the city together he kept his eyes focused on her feet. It was then he had his first inkling of what it means to suffer.

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

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

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

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

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

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.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

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.

I love everybody. When someone hurts, I hurt.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.