Quotes About Empathy

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.

Remember, purpose is about giving...All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.

Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Remove all unloving thoughts from your mind, and practice kindness in all of your thoughts, words, and actions. Cultivate

When you seek happiness for yourself it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others you will find it yourself.

There are two occasions when complaining is least appreciated in the world: (1) Whenever you tell someone else that you are tired. (2) Whenever you tell someone else that you don't feel well. If you are tired, you can exercise several options, but complaining to even one poor soul, let alone a loved one, is abusing that person. And it won't make you less tired. The same kind of logic applies to your "not feeling well.

When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose to be kind.

When you come to another with love in your heart, asking nothing, only offering that love, you create miraculous relationships.

A relationship based on love, as was said earlier, is one in which each partner allows the other to be what he chooses, with no expectations and no demands.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

You are entitled to it, and there are no strings attached. You must never depend on another person to "give" you happiness; that places too much of a burden on both of you. If you are truly happy inside yourself and allow the other person that same right, then you automatically bring happiness to each other without even trying, and it is a bonus because it is not expected or anticipated…it just is.

Even if you're older, wiser, and richer than others and have more influence and power than they do, never assume that you know what's best for anyone.

Remind yourself that what other people do is not what bothers you, it's your reaction to it. Instead of saying "They shouldn't do that," say, "I wonder why I bother myself with what they are doing.

Notice those who give much, boast little, nurture others, and decline recognition or credit, and put them in your greatness file.