Quotes About Empathy

But some of our choices are bigger, not massive, but bigger, and they have an impact on the people around us: shall I help that old lady with her shopping, or not? Shall I say something kind to you when I meet you? Shall I laugh at your ideas, shall I walk through the world gently, or shall I push everyone aside?

The ideal ratio, from the customer's point of view, is 5 to 1 or better. In other words, you should refer to the customer five times more than you refer to you and your company.

Just as we did with used cars, take a moment to brainstorm every single reason (fear, worry, question, concern) as to why someone would not buy from your company. What would hold them back? What would keep them from clicking "buy," swiping their credit card, or writing that big check?

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. ( Not for ourselves alone are we born. )

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

In real love, you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

And the King smiled down upon his little dark wife who could so wholeheartedly admire another woman.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.