Quotes About Empathy

When our minds start to open, we're no longer in a constant state of evaluation and judgment. Naturally, then, our senses open—and we can really see what is before us. Our eyes open in a different way, our hearing opens in a different way, our emotions open, our hearts open to all of existence. We see how judging and condemning actually close our hearts and harden us to our experience of life and others.

Freedom is the realization that everything and everybody gets to be exactly as they are. Unless we've come to that point, unless we've seen that this is how reality sees things, then we're actually withholding freedom from the world. We're seeing it as a possession, and we're only concerned with ourselves. How good I can feel? How free I can feel? True freedom is a gift to everything and everybody.

This is how I love you, and this is how you shall love all beings and all things.

Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

Moreover, one should so respect a friend's presence that he dare not perform anything shameful or speak any unbecoming word, since any fault so reflects on a friend that the friend not only blushes and grieves inwardly but also reproaches himself with what he sees or hears, as if he had committed the sin himself.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

Give heed, give heed and give your sympathy To one who suffers; sorrow roaming wide Impartial stops and stays awhile with me, To tarry later seated close by thee.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

To weep and lament over misfortunes, when it draws the sympathizing tear, brings no light recompense.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Better to be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

People often grudge others when they cannot enjoy themselves.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

There is always someone worse off than yourself.