Quotes About Empathy

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

In extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

The busy have no time for tears.

I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.

More in sorrow than in anger.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders, I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done, if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.

A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something that would make you mad if it happened to you.

Here's to one of the most beautiful, kind, thoughtful people I have ever known . . . You are getting more like me every day.

Let's face it, some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.