Quotes About Empathy

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours...And reflecting each other's love you see infinity.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

Ive learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Love builds up the broken wall and straigtens the crooked path. love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.