Daniel Goleman Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

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

  Daniel Goleman

  Pain, Mean, Helping Others

• Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

  Daniel Goleman

  Compassion, Our World, Self

  "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.

• Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

  Daniel Goleman

  Simple, Compassion, Empathy

• The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.

  Daniel Goleman

  Compassion, Empathy, Needs

• Compassion begins with attention.

  Daniel Goleman

  Compassion, Attention

• Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

  Daniel Goleman

  Simple, Compassion, Shopping

  "How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

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