Quotes About Empathy

A kindness is never wasted

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

Kindness has no religion. It is like an open sky.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.

What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

Requite injury with kindness.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

Only kindness matters. We are God's hands.