WISDOM: Compassion and empathy for others (courtesy AOM)

“Sometimes 

you have to look hard at a person 

and remember 

he’s doing the best he can.  

He’s just trying to find his way, 

just like you.”

~Ethel Thayer (Katherine Hepburn)

From On Golden Pond

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“Everything that irritates us about others 

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

~C.G. Jung

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“Resolve to be tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant with the weak and wrong.
Sometime in your life,
you will have been all of these.”

~Gautama Buddha

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“Only the development 

of compassion and understanding for others 

can bring us the tranquility and happiness
we all seek.”

~Dalai Lama XIV