Judith Martin Quotes

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.

I'm quite shocked and have been for quite a while as for the way people are treating each other. That's why I go out and I speak for the hungry, and if I see somebody needs a hug during the day, I'll go and give them a hug, and I think we should all use a little bit more of that.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

Speaking of important things, there are so many battles right now that people are fighting for that it's overwhelming, but I am always in favor of people who crusade for the sake of people's hearts and their well-being. That is what is important.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

I do it because I love animals and I saw the reality. And I just couldn't ignore it anymore. I'm healthier for it, I'm happier for it. I can't imagine that if you're putting something in your body that is filled with fear or anxiety or pain, that that isn't somehow going to be inside of you.

As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

I'm not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That's what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I've been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.

If you love people, you'll enjoy your life. If you don't, you won't love anything you do.

We can't always see people's pain; they can always feel our love.

Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.

I don't want to hurt people.

It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart.