Quotes About Empathy

It is better to be envied than pitied.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.

People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.

I tell you, there is no such thing as creative hate!

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

Friendship admits of differences of character, as love does that of sex.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we never forget the love of a friend.