Sophie Swetchine Quotes

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

In the end only kindness matters.

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.

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

To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

Compassion seems to be the greatest power.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.