Quotes About Empathy

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

too often we understimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potentional to turn a life round.

the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

I needed the company of another failure to make my own bearable.

What do any of us really know about others? Each of us has his own Day of Judgement inside himself.

Da uno che non sa ridere non ci si può aspettare misericordia.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Love those you hate you.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.