Quotes About Empathy

Have we no sins of our own to amend that we have all this time for barking and biting at the vices of our neighbours?... Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

All the arms we need are for hugging.

Wink at wee faults, your ain are meikle.

There is as much meaning in a wink as a word.

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain, And perish in our own.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbours'.

When developing and designing products that invite people to use them, just do it right from the start and put your heart into it. It's harder and it takes longer, but everyone wins in the end.

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

The means by which we live are marvelous indeed. And yet something is missing. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit.

I've seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in the world, since the payment is pure love.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

My heart is glass, daily shattered...

When what I express to another isn't felt or wanted or understood, the feeling goes back into myself and stabs me.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by [@$$höles].

Kindness is the greatest wisdom.

...that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love...

If instead of a gem, or even of a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving, as the angels... must give.

A hug is a great gift — one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.