Quotes About Empathy

Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.

Pray for one another.

He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden.

But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Your luck is how you treat people.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.