Philip James Bailey Quotes

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.

The more we stretch the muscle called compassion and generosity, the stronger we get, the better we feel about ourselves, the more loving we become to the world around us.

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

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

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It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

I will try and become a very empathetic person because I do think that's a nice trait.

Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

In the end only kindness matters.