Quotes About Empathy

But if you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good. And rather be angry than put to shame. And if you are cursed, I do not like that you want to bless. Rather join a little in the cursing.

You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?

That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

In many people, incidentally, the gift of having good friends is much greater than the gift of being a good friend.

Who suffers more? After a personal disagreement and quarrel between a woman and a man, the one party suffers most at the thought of having hurt the other; while that other party suffers most at the thought of not having hurt the first enough; for which reason it tries by tears, sobs, and contorted features, to weigh down the other person's heart, even afterwards

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always gives, and desires not to keep for himself.

Ja volim onog ?ija se duša rasipa, koji ne?e da mu kažu hvala, niti sam kaže hvala: jer on uvek daje i ne?e da se sa?uva.

That the other suffers must be learned; and it can never be learned completely.

Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.

There is not enough love and kindness in the world to permit us to give any of it away to imaginary beings.

What do you think most humane ?-To spare a person shame.

Para todo el que sufre es un goce embriagador dejar de ver sus propios sufrimientos y olvidarse de sí mismo.

I fear that the animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason – as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

If, however, thou hast a suffering friend, then be a resting-place for his suffering; like a hard bed, however, a camp-bed: thus wilt thou serve him best. And if a friend doeth thee wrong, then say: I forgive thee what thou hast done unto me; that thou hast done it unto THYSELF, however--how could I forgive that! Thus speaketh all great love: it surpasseth even forgiveness and pity. One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!

And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.

It is hard to live with human beings because being silent is so hard.

Eres para tu amigo aire puro y soledad, pan y medicina? Hay quienes no pueden desatar sus propias cadenas y sin embargo son salvadores para sus amigos.

Enemy you shall say but not villain, sick you shall say but not wretch, fool you shall say but not sinner.

To love those who despise us, and to give one's hand to the phantom who tries to frighten us?

I want to teach them what is understood by so few today, least of all by those preachers of pity: to share not suffering but joy.

He that feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul, says wisdom.

Aside from a few philosophers, men have always placed pity rather low in the hierarchy of moral feelings—and rightly so.

One who understands wanders among humans as among beasts.