C. S. Lewis Quotes

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

I'm sensitive. I'm proud of being sensitive. I'm proud of being empathetic.

Don't hold back from being an 'empath.' Don't be afraid of shedding your tears. Feel it. Feel the full extent of everything. It gives us strength.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.

Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal.

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not to allow ourselves to be carried by anger. We realize right away that that is fear. That is corruption.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.