Quotes About Empathy

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

When we understand the best way to achieve all our goals is to assist others in achieving their goals, we will find the key to lasting happiness.

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.