Quotes About Empathy

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves.

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Happiness is a by-product of helping others.

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.

As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy, mate - no one cares if you ain't."

True happiness consists in making others happy.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

Trust your intuitive heart.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.

He who has never experienced hurt, cannot experience true love.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others, rather than on what he ought to expect from them.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain, Remove some barrier from the road, Or brighten some one's heavy load.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.