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Quotes About Empathy

The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.
~ R. T. Kendall
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
~ Thomas a Kempis
A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
~ William Arthur Ward
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
~ Desmond Tutu
A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.
~ Christiane Northrup
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.
~ India.Arie
I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
~ Raymond Pettibon
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
~ Martin Scorsese
Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.
~ Nhat Hanh
Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.
~ Madame de Stael
Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.
~ Sidney Poitier
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
~ Lawana Blackwell
Best beauty tip is forgiveness for yourself and others
~ Jacqueline Bisset
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.
~ Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.
~ Dalai Lama
Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
~ Marianne Williamson
There is nothing that in the end, cannot be forgiven.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.
~ Choa Kok Sui
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
~ Ben Kingsley
...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
There is power in forgiveness.
~ Phil McGraw
Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.
~ Bebe Moore Campbell