Quotes About Empathy

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.