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Quotes About Empathy

Until the day I die, I'll be here for all people's of this world and beyond.
~ Unknown
We must learn about difference for difference to become the normal.
~ Unknown
We seem to have forgotten that we are one; we are human.
~ Unknown
Your pain defines you. Furthermore, those who are cushioned from pain are further from their truth than any other soul.
~ Unknown
Nevertheless, in love, the present matters. There is always an opportunity to learn and experience something new, to expose ourselves to wisdom by recognizing the humanity in others, to see through their eyes our one world; in this way, with love, we enter an empathetic space, as if it were a portal to a whole new world.
~ Common
Love is reciprocal; it is an exchange of our vulnerabilities and our higher selves in the name of transformation.
~ Common
When I was teaching children I began every day writing this on the blackboard: "Do to others what you would like them to do to you", telling them how much better the world would be if everybody lived by this rule.
~ Unknown
One may be just, if one is not human.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other.
~ Unknown
If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
~ Conan O'Brien
Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen
~ Conan O'Brien
One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.
~ Condoleezza Rice
Forget injuries, never forget kindness.
~ Confucius
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
~ Confucius
Till you have learned to serve men, how can you serve ghosts? Till you know about the living, how are you to know about the dead?
~ Confucius
Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.
~ Confucius
He who does not understand the will of Heaven cannot be regarded as a gentleman. He who does not know the rites cannot take his stand. He who does not understand words, cannot understand people.
~ Confucius
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
~ Confucius
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
~ Unknown
Your brother beat him almost to death, Temujin. He held him and kicked him until he cried like a child. He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.
~ Conn Iggulden
How we treat those who can't force us to be kind says everything about who we are as a people.
~ Unknown
Lorraine's voice was kind and patient. Personally, I'd have told the kid to shut up and get in the car. Guess that's why I don't have kids.
~ Unknown
We invite the part of ourselves we are working with to step into its Core State and have it. Then we invite our inner part to notice how already having the Core State as a way of being in the world transforms each of our Intended Outcomes.
~ Unknown
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
~ Conor Oberst