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Quotes About Empathy

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
~ Herbie Hancock
All pain is the same.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.
~ David Brooks
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
~ Victor Hugo
When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.
~ Francis Spellman
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
~ Jack Kerouac
If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.
~ Rick Warren
Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
~ Laozi
Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What you have to do as soon as you know about somebody, then you have to think what goodness he has got, how can I imbibe that goodness within myself?
~ Nirmala Srivastava
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
~ Stephen King, The Dark Tower
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
~ Lois Lowry, The Giver
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
~ Victor Hugo
The best way to be with your spirit is to forgive.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Whatever you have to say, you say it from your heart.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.
~ Jennifer Skiff
Imagine others complexly.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
The most talented people are always the nicest.
~ James Caan
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
~ Vince Lombardi
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.
~ Laura Schlessinger