Quotes About Empathy

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

Be a light unto others, not boastful of self.

Never put anyone out of your heart.

The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.

People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.