Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

I love everybody. When someone hurts, I hurt.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

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.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.

In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

You never know how many people are compassionate about something, especially when it's not happening to you. You just hope somebody's out there helping.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.