Quotes About Empathy

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

No matter how ill we may be, nor how low we may have fallen, we should not change identity with any other person.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I was playing it like Willie Wilson, but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.

It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.

She soothed and solaced and celebrated, destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way, but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.

To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.