Quotes About Empathy

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Understanding is a two-way street.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.

If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what they think of you, and you will think about them instead, you won't be shy.

If asked, you should state how you feel, how you think. But until asked, it is an intrusion to thrust your ideas on any grown human being.

being acquisitive on a large scale, cannot have value if it is bought at the expense of others.

So it is a major part of maturity to accept not only your own shortcomings but those of the people you love, and help them not to fail when you can.

If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what they think of you, and you will think about them instead, you won't be shy.

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.

I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

You must try to understand truthfully what makes you do things or feel things. Until you have been able to face the truth about yourself you cannot be really sympathetic or understanding in regard to what happens to other people. But it takes courage to face yourself and to acknowledge what motivates you in the things you do.

If people only realized what a war goes on in a child's mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.

Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

If you care enough about certain things and work for them, I think you are bound to find them in the people you are with.

It is important that women think beyond the mere moment through which we are passing and acquaint themselves with all phases of life and conditions in our own country. I think we shall have fulfilled our mission well if when our time comes to give up active wok in the world we can say we never saw a wrong without trying to right it; we never intentionally left unhappiness where a little effort would have turned it into happiness, and we were more critical of ourselves than we were of others.

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

If you step on other people's necks to get rich, or barter your personal honor, then it is others who pay for your success and you can hardly call it your own. If, however, you build something that is of benefit to other people, give them an opportunity to rise with you on your upward climb, you make a contribution.

We overlook the two major factors: they rarely know what we are talking about when we speak of freedom in the abstract; their most pressing problem, from birth to death, now as it always has been, is hunger.