"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves"
- Mason Cooley
About this Quote
This quote talks to the power of empathy and how it can assist us to transcend our own restrictions. Empathy is an effective feeling that can assist us to empathize with others and to acknowledge our shared humanity. When we feel empathy, it can bring us to a stop and help us to rise above our own selfishness and narrow-mindedness. Compassion can help us to see the world from a various point of view and to acknowledge the suffering of others. It can assist us to be more understanding and to be more available to different points of view. Empathy can help us to be more caring and understanding towards ourselves and others. Eventually, empathy can help us to progress people and to live more meaningful lives.
"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding"
"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights"
"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case"
"However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it"
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too"
"Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced"
"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George"
