Quotes About Empathy

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Nor knowest thou what argumentThy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.All are needed by each one;Nothing is fair or good alone.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

No, the wise man is he who by that wonderful alchemy of love transmutes the enemy into the friend,—transmutes the bitterest enemy into the warmest...(friend?). —What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy.

Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag.

We're all just walking each other home.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.