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Quotes About Empathy

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.
~ Kay Knudsen
The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings
~ Bill Russell
Love is two minds without a single thought.
~ Philip Barry
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
~ Emily Bronte
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
~ Anais Nin
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
~ Nan Fairbrother
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
~ Tammy Wynette
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
~ David Byrne
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
~ Erich Segal
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Do all things with love.
~ Og Mandino
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
~ William Butler Yeats
Before we can ever learn to love one another as we would hope to do, we must first be willing to see that for too long we have loved only ourselves . . . and that even this has been done poorly.
~ Guy Finley
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help
~ Abraham Lincoln
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle... (or) Einstein's Theory of Relativity ... (or) the Second Theory of Thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Get beyond love and grief; exist for the good of man
~ Unknown
Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere
~ Dalai Lama
Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world
~ Ralph Waldo Trine
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The giving of love is an education in itself.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt