Quotes About Empathy

He studied with the guru of rock n' roll, Baba Oom Mow Mow, who taught his own version of the Golden Rule: "Do wop unto others as you would have them do wop unto you.

Let your heart be as big as it can possibly be.

The more the evil in a man, the less he will respond to sincere and pure love.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine. . . .

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.

Have Faith in Man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one.

Serve man Serve god

It is better not to love, if loving only means hating others. That is no love. That is hell! If loving your own people means hating everybody else, it is the quintessence of selfishness and brutality, and the effect is that it will make you brutes. Therefore, better die working out your own natural religion than following another's natural religion, however great it may appear to you

All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.

the easiest way to make ourselves happy is to see that others are happy.

If the subject is a good one, we shall feel friendly towards it; if the subject of thought is one that is miserable, we must be merciful towards it. If it is good, we must be glad; if it is evil, we must be indifferent.

Don't do anything more for your body than you do for John.

Where one sees another, one hears another so long as there are two, there must be fear, and fear is the mother of all [misery].

What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.

Do something good for someone every day.

I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

I'm very mindful of trying to do something good in the world. When I see injustice in the world, it's very hard for me.

Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'