Quotes About Empathy

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.

It is this intangible thing, love in many forms, which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals, which comforts and restores, which works what we have to call - for now - miracles.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving, which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

When we connect with ourselves in love, we can connect with others and the planet in love.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

Spend a moment, every day, thinking of someone to love.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.