Quotes About Empathy

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

No happiness equals the joy of finding a heart that understands.

When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.