Quotes About Empathy

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder than we are! How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered

The greatest thing," says some one, "a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.

It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard, uncharitable world there should still be left a few rare souls who think no evil. This is the great unworldliness. Love "thinketh no evil," imputes no motive, sees the bright side, puts the best construction on every action. What a delightful state of mind to live in! What a stimulus and benediction even to meet with it for a day!

If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.

Do you know the meaning of the word 'gentleman'? It means someone who does things gently. That is the whole art and mystery of Love.

Stephen Grellet wrote: 'I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

There is a difference between trying to please and giving pleasure. Give pleasure. Lose no chance of giving pleasure; for that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men's minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection.

It made you feel good just to know there was somebody somewhere who liked you and thought that what you did was all right. Reaching

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

Why should people be so helplessly affected by agony they cannot remove?

I can't understand why people can't go on just being ordinary to each other even if they are in love.

A great deal of what passes for current Christianity consists in denouncing other people's vices and faults.

The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child

People's hearts are often opened when they speak freely.

When a person's conscience alerts them to an offense that is causing a rift in a relationship, it is important to attempt to reconcile quickly with the offended person.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they would appear to different grades of intelligence, different classes of people, different sections of the country. More than once this many-sidedness of his mind saved the country from ruin.

Roosevelt returned to this theme in his fourth inaugural address in 1945: We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one." We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.

I was human, very human, and if in the days misspent I have injured man or woman, it was done without intent. If at times I blundered blindly — bitter heart and aching brow — If I wrote a line unkindly — I am sorry for it now.