Quotes About Empathy

Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another.

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Love can only be found through the act of loving.

When mouths close, it's because there's something important to be said.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.

Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.

there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.

Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.

She asks him to touch her, to feel her with his hands, because bodies always understand each other, even when souls do not.

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.