...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

If you've been on this side, then you'll have more compassion and understanding for those still on this side when you get to the other side, because you know how it feels like to be on this side. Sometimes though, relief comes too sudden and good that we tend to lose our sense of empathy for those still on this side, and it's amazing how we've forgotten so soon how it felt like to be on this side. How would it have felt if you were treated the same way you treat those who are on this side by those who were on the other side, when you were still on this side, now that you are on the other side?

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

There is no small act of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.