“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.” PeopleFeelsWritingHateFeltLosesCompassionLonelinessSorrowForgiving Author:Louise Penny
“As we hate ourselves less, we tend to hate other people less too.” PeopleHateCompassionBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.” KnowsShouldPersonsTwoHateEvilLove IsCompassionVirtueIgnoranceIntelligentIntelligenceSuperiorsCrueltyArroganceIntoleranceGentlenessForbearanceIntelligent Person Author:J. Martin Klotsche
“Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.” MightHateCompassionDrawsI HateMessCatastropheHate MeHarbinger Author:Alain de Botton
“No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.” Has BeensUseAgeHateSinCompassionMoralSinnerRelativismMoral Relativism Author:Peter Kreeft