And love Quote by Stephen Batchelor

To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice…

— Dalai Lama

“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

“To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us.…

— Jean-Yves Leloup

“More and more, it seems to me that compassion dwells in the tough, not the tender-hearted, because it requires us to come to terms…

— Ann Nietzke

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mary Robinson

Almost all human beings have the capacity for empathy. Everyone has the potential to be at least troubled, or feel genuine anguish, about the…

— Owen Jones

“Some empathy must be learned and then imagined, by perceiving the suffering of others and translating it into one's own experience of suffering and…

— Rebecca Solnit

“When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate…

— Bryant McGill

“suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we want to be loved.”

— Paulo Coelho

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

— Lydia Millet

“As we develop our compassionate mind, we should feel an increasing sense of responsibility for the suffering of others and form a resolve to…

— Karen Armstrong