Quotes About Empathy

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

You can never go wrong with kindness.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.