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Quotes About Empathy

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
~ Abigail Van Buren
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
~ Jane Wyman
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
~ Nelson Mandela
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
~ Ramana Maharshi
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
~ Gary L. Francione
Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we've simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.
~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
~ Victor Hugo
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
~ Maya Angelou
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
~ Evelyn Waugh
If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.
~ Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
~ Steven Erikson
See things from the boy's point of view.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
We used to say that those amongst us with the most sins are those who spend their time talking about the sins of others.
~ Ibn Sirin
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
~ Thomas Merton
The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help
~ Louise Penny
We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.
~ Anneli Rufus
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.
~ Gary L. Francione
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
~ Pema Chodron
Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression
~ Harun Yahya
Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil
~ Dennis Prager