Quotes About Empathy

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.

All forgiveness is self forgiveness.

I discovered that forgiveness is a path to freedom.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.