Quotes About Empathy

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them.

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

There is wisdom to loving.

No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

I pray daily for wisdom on how to serve my kids without words.

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.

In hurting anyone, you hurt yourself, in loving anyone, you love yourself.

Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. It is through the heart that the Lord is seen, and not through the intellect.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them." — Swami Vivekananda