Quotes About Empathy

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.