Quotes About Empathy

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.

It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible.

Love expands.

Ultimately love is everything.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

...the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule

Be loving and the love in your life will increase.

What the heart gives away is never gone ... It is kept in the hearts of others.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word ''Love.'' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Love creates an us without destroying a me.

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.