Quotes About Empathy

Choose being kind over being right and you'll never be wrong.

Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflected in all our thoughts and actions.

Even if you're total strangers, you can establish a connection by: Complimenting the person, Finding some things you have in common, Being nice and showing an interest in things they care about.

For the one who forgives, finds strength untold, In choosing kindness, a heart unfolds, And as forgiveness spreads its wings, A symphony of healing it sings.

Forgiveness isn't an easy art, It calls for courage to play its part, To release the anger and grudges long held, And in its place, compassion is compelled.

Forgiveness, an art, both gentle and strong, A melody that mends what went wrong, It softens the edges of a wounded soul, And mends the fragments that once took their toll.

Like a river's flow, forgiveness cascades, Washing away resentment's dark shades, It breaks the chains that bind the heart, Granting liberation, a brand-new start.

Listen with a heart, but answer with a soul.

Rather than elevate themselves to your level, haters would rather drag you down. Once you understand them, you will no longer feel confusion or even dislike. You'll just feel sorry for them.

Relationships are your most powerful asset.

The most effective medicine here on this earth is unconditional love.

There is no magic wand to get rid of haters. There is no secret spell to win them over to your side.

True happiness comes from a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood, but not from hatred and division.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

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.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.