Quotes About Empathy

The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.

A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Not many people ask me out.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met man who had no feet.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.