Quotes About Empathy

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.

Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

It's hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.