Quotes About Empathy

We are here for the sake of others

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Love is the answer

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehensions of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through his eyes.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

Learn to be happy through the good fortunes and joys of your friends and not through senseless quarrels. If you allow these natural feelings to blossom within you, your every burden will seem lighter or more bearable to you, you will find your own way through patience, and you will spread joy everywhere.

If you can't do respect for yours, you can't do for others.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive

Not mastery but service," will lead people in the right way.

Weak people get revenge, strong people forgive, and intelligent people ignore.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

te po?i certa cu adev?rat numai cu fra?ii t?i ?i cu prietenii apropia?i; ceilal?i sunt prea str?ini pentru a?a ceva.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile

I feel compelled to say something else to you. There has been a certain ill-feeling between us the cause of which I do not want to analyze. I have struggled against the feeling of bitterness attached to it, with complete success. I think of you again with unmixed geniality and ask you to try to do the same with me. It is a shame when two real fellows who have extricated themselves somewhat from this shabby world do not afford each other mutual pleasure.

When we survey our lives and endeavours we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings.

Le persone iniziano a vivere per la prima volta solo quando diventano capaci di non vivere per se stesse

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

For if you damn others for their errors, how can you not also damn yourself—your entire being or personhood—for your failings? Give some thought to that dilemma! Your hating others as persons, in other words, borders much too close on self-hatred.