Quotes About Empathy

There's no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!

It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.

You can only be free if I am free.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

An open heart is an open mind.

Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever curses bad people, and does not pray for them, will never come to know the grace of God.

Lack of understanding is always painful.