Quotes About Empathy

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

To minister means to love and care for others. It means to attend to their physical and spiritual needs. Put simply, it means to do what the Savior would do if He were here.

We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.

For until ye become as a savior, as a help to some soul that has lost hope, lost its way, ye do not fully comprehend the god within, the god without.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.