Barbara Walters Quotes

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

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

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.

Sometimes people just need to feel heard, and being an actor has taught me to really listen.

If I had to name my superpower, it's probably empathy.

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

To understand all is to forgive all.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Compassion takes imagination.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Have consideration for wounded feelings.