Quotes About Empathy

True happiness is everyone's good, not personal comfort when many, too many live in poverty and despair.

You can love a person for walking the same roads as you every dusk or dawn. You can love a person a lot by teaching him to love people, thus himself. You can love someone like no one has ever loved or will ever love them, but you can't ask anyone to love you.

You cannot love more than you do, but you can be more courteous when showing it!

People are sometimes really different from what you first think. You have to give them a chance.

Dogs are the best people!

I have no sympathy for people who find unpopularity embittering.

one of the great gifts of our profession is that the process of doing what we do allows us to become better human beings.

YOU love everyONE, whether YOU realize it or not. And everyONE loves YOU whether they realize it or not. Imagine what that means

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

no somos átomos aislados en este mundo, y nuestra conducta influye necesariamente en las vidas de muchas otras personas, a las que estamos ligados por lazos de sangre o de amistad.

La misericordia, el amor al prójimo, el amor a los que nos aman, el amor a los que nos odian! —murmuró entre dientes—. Debemos ser misericordiosos incluso con nuestros enemigos. Este es el amor que Dios predicó entre los hombres, el amor que me aconsejaba la princesa María y que yo no sabía comprender. Es por esto por lo que siento morir. Si viviera, amaría a todos mis enemigos, pero ahora ya es demasiado tarde. ¡Ya lo sé!

La gente que tiene el corazón en el cuello, en los labios, en los pantalones, en fin, en cualquier otro lugar que no sea en su lugar, acusa de no tener corazón a quien sí lo tiene en su lugar. Después de haber buscado en vano ese corazón en cada uno de los lugares que ellos conocen para el corazón, se convencen de que no tiene corazón; pues él lo tiene justamente en su lugar y ahí no se les ocurre buscarlo[1].