Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So many young people are coming out of a generation that has experienced deep woundedness and brokenness, and they are full of life. They are eager to engage. They care about community, and they care about one another.
The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.