Quotes About Empathy

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.

Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Helping others is like helping yourself.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them