Quotes About Empathy

To err is human; to forgive takes time.

To forgive someone will definitely help you for not being hurt yourself anymore.

To know someone is not to know their face, but to know their heart.

We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.

We are always ready to make friends with those who look more stupid than us and sometimes we love them just for being so.

When a man doesn't go straight home, his wife's remarks do.

You can learn good manners from those who don't have any.

You can measure your desire for going to Heaven by what you have done to others.

You can't make other people understand what you are trying to explain if you don't understand it yourself.

You can't raise your child probably if you don't sometimes raise your voice.

You may laugh at people for what they do, but never laugh at what they are.

You must know something about a person before you hate him.

You shouldn't waste your time trying to judge the person whose name has been written after this quote.

You will find many to like you if you keep making a fool of yourself.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance.

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.

There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

Children are mirrors; they will always show you exactly what is going on inside of you. Each phase of their growth is an opportunity to heal your own pain, to go deeper inside yourself and become more truly human

The child who feels your respect during silences is nourished more than the child who is constantly fussed and chattered over.

You can sit and meditate while your baby cries himself to sleep. Or you can go to him and share his tears, and find your Self.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.