Quotes About Empathy

Remember that all is One... and what you do to your neighbor, your friend or your foe, is a reflection of what you think of your Creator.

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.