empathetic concern Quotes

It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy?

Compassion is concern of others' well being.

The more we are concerned for the well being of others, the closer we will feel to each other.

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.

There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires.

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

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.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

By developing a sense of concern for others' well-being, then no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep inner peace.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others.

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.