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Quotes About Empathy

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.
~ Hoda Kotb
You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.
~ Amy Dickinson
Selfless action is a source of strength.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Violence doesn't equal strength.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Find the courage and the strength to turn inward and to ask a simple, soaring question. What would LOVE do NOW?
~ Neale Donald Walsch
It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.
~ David Levithan
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
~ Georg Brandes
My kindness is my weakness but my weakness is my biggest strength.
~ Behdad Sami
Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Most of all, I like the fact that you share yourself with me. That I don't have to prove my strength to you. I don't have to hurt or be hurt to lie with you." - Vane
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Why yes, I can, ' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The power of love is the strength for the heart.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength
~ Prabhukrishna M
The more loving we can be, the more powerful we become.
~ Silvia Hartmann
By lighting another's candle you brighten your own.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
~ Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
I wish I could have healed your misery, quenched your sorrow.
~ Ana Chapman
Strength conquers some, might conquers many, power conquers numerous, but love conquers all.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.
~ Max Gray, Silence of the God
We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.
~ Bilal Tanweer
Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.
~ Kelly McGonigal
As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
~ Rodney King