Quotes About Empathy

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Relationships make me happy.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

We wanted to touch them with our action.

What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness..... ?

Unkind acts are like giving a piece of one's self away for cheap.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.