Quotes About Empathy

As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

Whatever I have given, I have gained.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

Violence is not the way.

Inspirational and will challenge readers to get involved in the lives of others to make a difference. Thank you for sharing your wonderful insight and encouragement.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

True giving happens when we give from our heart.

What you give, you become.

What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because...there is naught but You.

The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold them.

Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

Laughter is the best way To make somebody's heart beat

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.