Quotes About Empathy

Never fight fire from ego.

Enjoy thy stream, then, harmless fish; And, when an angler, for his dish, Through gluttony — vile sin! Attempts, a wretch! to pull thee out, Heaven give the strength, O, gentle trout, TO PULL THE RASCAL IN !

Fart when someone hugs you — it makes them feel strong.

A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

He who forgives ends the quarrel.

Forgive. It doesn't erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.

The function of a friend is not to have a function.

Don't let your hatred gossip.

Some secrets are fires so scorching, the only way to quench the burn is to tell someone.

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of every body.

Panting to help the dear ones and yet not knowing how, lest any voice bereave them... One who only said "I am sorry" helped me the most when father ceased — it was too soon for language.

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.

If you want to be happy, be kind to others.

We cannot afford to be anchorites. There is no such thing as being happy ourselves unless we make others happy.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

I also came to see that the price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

No one is born hating another person... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Hating withers your heart. Hearts that don't pump love, atrophy.

We cannot heal when hate persists.

A loving heart heals hate.

His heart beats only love — not a drop of hate-tinged blood in his body.