Quotes About Empathy

I say 'I'm sorry.' It usually disarms them.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind are always attained by giving them to someone else.

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other.

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Overcome the devils with a thing named love.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

We all mold one another's dreams. We all hold each other's fragile hopes in our hands. We all touch others' hearts.

When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing. -Corinthians 13:1

You don't need to be on the save wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other's waves.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Love is a two way street.

When you frown everyone looks down, but when you smile the whole world smiles with you.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.