Emma Goldman Quotes

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

My mother taught me caring and sensitivity towards the feelings of others, animals as well as humans. She gave me much good, practical advice for getting through life.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally.

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.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Let our children be taught love love love.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

My mum is a lovely woman, so strong but so kind and compassionate. She brought us up to be proud, loving and forgiving.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.