Danish Proverb Quotes

Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

We all have that capacity to reach out to people we don't even know and care about them ...

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Compassion is a two way street.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.