Quotes About Empathy

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.

By developing a sense of concern for others' well-being, then no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep inner peace.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

If we can invoke Peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how Peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

Not judging people is the fastest way to peace.