Quotes About Empathy

What is wrong with this gentleman, Sylvester?' the tall one said. 'A man's dying outside!' I said. 'Someone is always dying,' the other one said. 'Yes, and it's good to die beneath God's great tent of sky.

Don't laugh at fools. Some are His.

You cannot have a deep sympathy with both man & nature. Those qualities which bring you near to the one estrange you from the other."  

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Love, and you shall be loved.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me.

It is a luxury to be understood.

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar