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Quotes About Empathy

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
~ George D. Prentice
We hate the kindness which we understand.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
~ Albert Schweitzer
If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
~ Marianne Williamson
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.
~ Chris Abani
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
~ Thomas Hardy
A small unkindness is a great offence.
~ Hannah More
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Kindness can change the lives of people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.
~ Fredrika Bremer
Today I share my abundance with someone who needs a gift of kindness.
~ Cheryl Richardson
I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
How wise must one be to be always kind.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
~ Blaise Pascal
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
~ Margaret Cho
Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.
~ Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.
~ Robert Alan Aurthur
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
~ Antonio Porchia