Quotes About Empathy

if you want to help others, your little self must go.

am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

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.

Even by intellectually recognising the difficulties, we really do not know them until we feel them.

It is a weakness to think that any one is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another. This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

Mercy shall not be for men alone, but shall go beyond, and embrace the whole world.

Go from village to village, do good to humanity and to the world at large.

It is a well-known psychological fact that those who are ever ready to abuse others cannot bear the slightest touch of criticism from others.

I do not care for liberation, I would rather go to a hundred thousand hells, 'doing good to others(silently) like the spring', this is my religion.

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.

Knowing someone who belongs to another species can enlarge your soul in surprising ways.

Just about every animal," Scott says—not just mammals and birds—"can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy.

one of the most heartbreaking conditions of life on Earth is that most of the animals we love... die so long before we do.

Isn't this what we want to know about those whom we care about? What is it like, we wonder at each meeting, in shared meals and secrets and silences, with each touch and glance, to be you?

reverie. To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege.

We are always mistaking the suffering of others; it's either much worse than we think or not nearly so bad.

To respect people is one thing; to raise them up on a pedestal merely shows how deep a hole I've dug for myself.... True humility lies in forgiving myself for being so perplexingly human, and forgiving others for pretending they're any less human than I.