Quotes About Empathy

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Tsze-Kung asked, Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain.

Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You'll only hurt yourself.

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

I've been hurt but I'll continue to love, for that gives me courage to go on with my life.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.