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Quotes About Empathy

When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you're one-on-one with the topic at hand.
~ Carmelo S. "Nino" Amarena
Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.
~ Alyson Noel
Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
I didn't know the real reason that she was crying. I was just carried away by the feeling of her in my arms, trembling and warm.
~ Kaori Ozaki, The Gods Lie
It'd felt good to be part of an "us, " with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.
~ Jennifer Brown
All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.
~ L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
~ Marcel Proust
Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
I'm thankful there are children watching at home who can finally relate to a new Miss America.
~ Nina Davuluri
Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
~ Ellen Hopkins
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.
~ Plutarch
I'm thankful for some of bad experiences I've had. They helped me with the way I view people and see them for who they really are.
~ Blake Griffin
Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for... and smile. The world will smile with you.
~ Frank Bettger
I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.
~ Nick Vujicic
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
~ Dalai Lama
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
If we all just took a moment to be a little more thankful and kind to people, or smile at people, it could really change someone's day.
~ Jaime King
It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.
~ Anna Laetitia Waring