Quotes About Empathy

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

What thou thyself hatest, do to no man.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.

Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee, do not do that to them.

As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

All things whatsoever ye wou'd that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.

I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactor.

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

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.