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Quotes About Empathy

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
~ Abraham Lincoln
In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.
~ Pat Conroy
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
~ Phillips Brooks
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
~ Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
~ Timothy Keller
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
~ John Lydon
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.
~ Desmond Tutu
We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
~ George Eliot
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.
~ H. G. Bohn
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
~ Catherine Ponder
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.
~ Virginia H. Pearce
Forgive that you may be forgiven.
~ Seneca the Younger
There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
~ Terry Goodkind
A coward never forgives.
~ Laurence Sterne
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
~ William James
Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.
~ Virginia H. Pearce
Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.
~ Raven-Symone
Forgiveness is the best revenge.
~ Frederick Lenz
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
~ John Tillotson
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
~ Anne Lamott