Quotes About Empathy

You do not need to be the designated driver of someone's intoxicated ego.

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?...

The silent man is the best to listen to.

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I, who have no sisters nor brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends...

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. Scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. A smile, accompanied by a kind word, has been known to reclaim a poor outcast and change the whole current of a human life.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile.

If you smile at someone, they might smile back.

Wear a smile — one size fits all.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.

Two hands are too small a bowl. One heart is a hill too small, to rest on.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ich fürchte, grad unter Menschen möchtest du ein Mensch zu sein verlernen.

Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe!

Look on yourself as a citizen in a kingdom of persons, he advised. Act always as if the maxim of your action could become a universal law, always treating mankind, as much in your own person as in that of another, as an end, never as a means.3

If you make happy those who are near, those who are far will come.

Don't ever fancy, no matter how hard a thing you have to go through, that your experience is unique. This old world has been going on a good many hundred years, and there are precious few situations that haven't happened over and over again. Cheer up, child; that's a model letter, and you're a good little sport!

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

it. I kept thinking I should be here, being miserable with you. So, here I am." They sat for a long time, in a close embrace, with only a low light burning, staring