Nicholas Sparks Quotes

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

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

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

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.

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

I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

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

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.

Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

None knows the weight of another's burden.