Quotes About Empathy

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love...

Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you.

Don't be mean when you've had a bad day. Be nice, and your day will get better.

And she was always cold toward bats, too, and could not bear them; and yet I think a bat is as friendly a bird as there is.

Pigeons are people too.

Somewhere at a summer conference, I dropped several books casually on the ground and kicked them out of the way. A German student picked up the books, dusted them off gently. He said how he had worked for years to buy a few books. A book was his blood, and he bled when he saw it mishandled.

BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

To err is human To purr feline.

Are we really sure the purring is coming from the kitty and not from our very own hearts?

There seems to be a popular impression that cats are thoroughly selfish and incapable of any natural feeling or affection. I do not believe that. My experience has shown me that cats are very affectionate, especially to persons whom they like. They are not quick, like dogs, to strike up friendships; but when a friendship is once formed with a human, they manifest their feelings in ways that are unmistakable. And they are remarkably intelligent.

Don't laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.

Because those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

Hanging my head and my heart with it, that you sorrowed alone...

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behooves any of us To find fault with the rest of us.

Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter, but do not admit the excuses, except in courtesy; as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon, the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself?

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.