Quotes About Empathy

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

He alone may chastise who loves.

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.

The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt.

58 One morning in the flower garden a blind girl came to offer me a flower chain in the cover of a lotus leaf. I put it round my neck, and tears came to my eyes. I kissed her and said, "You are blind even as the flowers are. You yourself know not how beautiful is your gift.

It came to be the natural rule of life with him, that no one should add to the burden of the world, but that each should try to lighten it.

Tears came to my eyes. I forgot that he was a poor Cabuli fruit-seller, while I was—. But no, what was I more than he? He also was a father.

no one should add to the burden of the world, but that each should try to lighten it.

When a man does not realise his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him.

Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. When I try to bow to thee, my obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where thy feet rest among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. Pride can never approach to where thou walkest in the clothes of the humble among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. My heart can never find its way to where thou keepest company with the companionless among the poorest, the lowliest, and the lost.

At the very name of another country, my heart would go out to it, and at the sight of a foreigner in the streets, I would fall to weaving a network of dreams,—the mountains, the glens, and the forests of his distant home, with his cottage in its setting, and the free and independent life of far-away wilds.

The absence of human company and affection seemed to choke his heart.

The moment you clasp an infant to your heart, you realize that nobody is born into a caste.

The deepest source of all calamities in history is misunderstanding. For where we do not understand, we can never be just. Being

No civilized society can thrive upon victims whose humanity has been permanently mutilated

Everyone's nature is not alike. Because you have found your convictions within yourself and can take refuge in your own strength, you fail to realize the predicament of others.

At the slightest opportunity, Gora wanted to forcefully cast aside all constraints and prejudices, to come down to the level the general public, and declare with all his heart: 'I am yours, and you are mine!

Merging with that mass of humanity, he wanted to surrender to the vast current of national life, and to feel the nation's turbulent pulse within his own heart.

LOVE! when you come with the burning lamp of pain in your hand, I can see your face and know you as bliss.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.

If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.