Compassion Quote by Brené Brown

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some…

— Paul Bloom

“Empathy is when you use your imagination to expand your ability to feel compassion for people in situations beyond those you have experienced, maybe…

— Kelsey Crowe

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

— Dalai Lama

“I think people believe empathy to be compassion, that compassion is an inner sense (a sense of the soul). But empathy is a sense,…

— C. JoyBell C

“At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens when we…

— Joseph Goldstein

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

— Will Tuttle

“Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able…

— His Holiness the Dalai Lama

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

— Hazel Hawke

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense…

— Joan Halifax

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

— Deepak Chopra

The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person,…

— Daniel Goleman

“Compassion is a manifestation of the relationality that binds people together in community and that constitutes the very essence of their humanity.”

— Christopher D. Marshall