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Quotes About Empathy

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.
~ Óscar Arias
In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony
~ Gautama Buddha
The kind need kindness most of all.
~ Katharine Tynan
You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.
~ Khalil Gibran
Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.
~ Cobie Smulders
Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.
~ John Ross Macduff
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
~ David Foster Wallace
Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.
~ Ana Monnar
Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.
~ Julian Baggini
I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.
~ Andie MacDowell
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
~ Arthur Golden
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.
~ Nhat Hanh
There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
~ Eric Hoffer
Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.
~ Sam Horn
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
~ Seneca the Younger
The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
~ Joseph Joubert
I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.
~ Alan Cohen
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
~ Anne Frank
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
~ Freya Stark
In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.
~ Tara Brach