Quotes About Empathy

It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.

In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Anger and anger can not solve any problem.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.