Quotes About Empathy

Live without attachment by being generous.

amazing: Most of the time, kindness and love really work to get other people to understand that they can't treat you with disrespect. But if it doesn't, then you have to go to plan B and plan C and even plan D—it all comes from this internal belief in who you are as a human being.

Imagine the possibilities for all of humanity if we simply eliminated prejudice

when you suspend your pomposity and rigidity, others recognize themselves in your flexible nature, and they'll trust you.

Nurturing things without possessing them

never assume that you know what's best for anyone.

give much, boast little, nurture others, and decline recognition or credit

if we begin to lessen ego-dominated thinking, sooner or later the world will get the message

If you don't love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won't be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.

Rather than having judgmental thoughts about those whom you regard as separate or different, view others as an extension of yourself.

When you live from the perspective of being able to say, "I don't know for certain, but I'm willing to listen," you become a person whom others identify with.

Serve the needs of others, and all your own needs will be fulfilled.

remember to include yourself when dispensing kindness and nonjudgment.

I promise you that when you adjust rule-based thinking to a heart-based attitude, your life will change!

Don't wait for chaos to erupt before you are generous and kind to others.

All rights and wrongs of every description represent shoulds of one kind or another. And the shoulds get in your way, particularly when they conflict with another person's need to have his own as well.

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.

no one is special or better than anyone else. This sentiment is echoed in the Christian scriptures: "[God] sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous" (Matt. 5:45).

begin the beautiful day doing something kind for another human being someplace on the planet.

if a thought or behavior divides us, it is not of God; if it unites us, it is of God.

This is not about me. I choose not to have any thoughts of harm directed to anyone by me. I am a being of lightand love, and therefore the only thoughts that can emerge from me are in harmony with the great loving Tao.

When negativity feels like it's directed right at you, retreat to that place of kindness and love within and deflect that energy.

I honor the place in you where we are all one.

suffering is a part of the human condition that no one escapes in their lifetime, and that it may be more despairing for some than others.