Quotes About Empathy

A kind word is like a spring day.

Sometimes people will hear you better if you speak with a voice of compassion instead of authority. They long to be understood more than to be lectured.

Don't let those who take advantage of your generosity stop you from being generous.

In a world full of people who couldn't care less, be someone who couldn't care more.

Small kindnesses make you a bigger person.

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

Because that's what kindness is. It's not doing something for someone else because they can't, but because you can.

even though your broken heart may never heal bless those who help hold the pieces together

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

We can't always see the scatters and tatters of a broken heart. Kindness is due to all fellow beings — we never know the invisible hurts they're enduring.

Don't cast a shadow on anyone unless you're providing shade.

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

They let their laughs bounce back and forth between them.

I thank you for such a long letter, and yet if I might choose, the next should be a longer. I think a letter just about three days long would make me happier than any other kind of one, if you please...

It is foolish to say sharp, hasty things, but 't is a deal more foolish to write 'em. When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded — and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

Plant love everywhere, so that it grows through the cracks in hatred.

Everyone wants to be the sun that lifts up your life, but I'd rather be your moon, so I may shine on you during your darkest hour when the sun isn't around and the ghost white moonbeams will allow you to find comfort in my arms.

May love touch every brutal soldier and every uncherished heart.

Perhaps for some, rudeness is the fear of being nice.

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that their behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.

She had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.