Sally Kohn Quotes

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.

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.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

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

I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Compassion is a two way street.

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.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

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.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

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

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.