Quotes About Empathy

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.

What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.

Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate.

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself.

Simply give others a bit of yourself; a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

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

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

Cruelty is the only sin.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right, there is no love. There is only masked fear.

In real love you want the other person's good.

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well.

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.