Anne McCaffrey Quotes

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

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.

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

When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.

Everyone deserves compassion.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.