Quotes About Empathy

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

Kindness is always fashionable.