Quotes About Empathy

Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.

We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them, no matter what facts develop later on.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Whoever in trouble and sorrow needs your help, give it to him. Whoever in anxiety or fear needs your friendship, give it to him. It isn't important whether he likes you. It isn't important whether you approve of his conduct. It isn't important what his creed or nationality may be.

I was hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Charity looks at the need, not at the cause.

Make the world better.

He that has no charity deserves no mercy.

Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.