Quotes About Empathy

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

Thare iz a grate deal ov charity in this world so koldly rendered that it fairly hurts, it iz like lifting a drowning man out ov the water bi the hair ov the hed, and then letting him drop on the ground.

The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another

It is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror!