Paul Bloom Quotes

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

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.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.

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.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

Compassion takes imagination.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko

Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.