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Quotes About Empathy

If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.
~ Laozi
Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.
~ Nelson Mandela
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.
~ Stephen Covey
Mercy is stronger than your sword.
~ P.C. Cast, Dragon's Oath
Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
~ Laozi
I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
~ Andy Rooney
Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.
~ Fausto Cercignani
It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.
~ Katherine Paterson
I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.
~ Uri Avnery
Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.
~ Tony Robbins
I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.
~ Diana Gabaldon
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.
~ Cassandra Clare
We are all the same. We have the same hopes, fears, strengths, and weaknesses.
~ Kevin Griffin
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
~ Milan Kundera
At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.
~ Viktor Yushchenko
We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
That's what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.
~ Terry Goodkind
The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it.
~ Catherine Fraser
A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.
~ Fred Rogers
If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.
~ Matthieu Ricard
I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.
~ Richelle Mead, Bloodlines
I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.
~ Newt Gingrich