Yoko Ono Quotes

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Everyone deserves compassion.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

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

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Everybody's funny if you love them.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

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

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

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 have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

I love everybody. When someone hurts, I hurt.