Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.
I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.
If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.
Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
As the human race, let's continue to show love, compassion, and respect towards one another.
My only hope is that we can all try and be kinder, always show love and listen to one another.
You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding.
We've got to be kind.
I believe that people should believe people around them, they should treat each other with kindness.
All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.
As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.
At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Everyone deserves compassion.
Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?
Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.
We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.