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Quotes About Empathy

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
~ Charles Darwin
It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.
~ Daniel Handler
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
~ George Edward Woodberry
I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.
~ Hamza Yusuf
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.
~ Simone Weil
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
~ Oswald Chambers
A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise
~ Anna Laetitia Waring
I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.
~ Marie Dressler
when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
~ C. S. Lewis
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
~ John Ruskin
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
~ Golda Meir
We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.
~ Felicia Hemans
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
~ Sri Chinmoy
The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
~ Paulo Coelho
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
~ Oscar Wilde
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
~ William Cowper
We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.
~ Alexander Pope
The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
~ George Eliot