Quotes About Empathy

I will receive from them not what they have but what they are.

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Satu-satunya cara untuk mendapat sahabat ialah dengan menjadi sahabat.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong

My country is the world and my religion is to do good.

There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

The love that you withhold is the pain you carry.

It is better to hear than to speak.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood? All men have my blood, and I have all men's.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

Es gehört zu den schönsten Entschädigungen in diesem Leben, dass niemand ernstlich versuchen kann, einem anderen zu helfen, ohne sich selbst zu helfen.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, — a possession for all time.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil

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Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart, you shall lose your own.

I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.