Jean Webster Quotes

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

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

People need to have compassion for others.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

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 more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

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

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

I think everybody needs to be more empathetic.

In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible.

You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Compassion takes imagination.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.

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

I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.