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Quotes About Empathy

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.
~ William Cowper
Well, I'm glad you didn't drown." His eyes warm up with his face. I smile back at him. "Yeah, that would've sucked." "Definitely.
~ J.A. Redmerski
When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.
~ Keith Raniere
A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.
~ Dalai Lama
A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
~ Helen Keller
I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.
~ Loretta Lynn
Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.
~ Angelique Kidjo
A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.
~ Barbara Ann Kipfer
A child regards your cheery smile as evidence that you are on his side, so he relaxes and is happier.
~ George W. Crane
The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.
~ Robert Breault
Take time to compliment people every day. Do it sincerely and with no desire to gain anything but a smile in return.
~ Robert Cheeke
If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
~ Muriel Barbery
He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?
~ Andrei Sinyavsky
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
~ Katherine Mansfield
There's no better feeling than making somebody smile.
~ Miley Cyrus
Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.
~ Paulo Coelho
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.
~ Natsuki Takaya
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.
~ Jonathan Evison
I love making people smile. I get so much energy through interacting and feeling like I've made a difference, a small difference.
~ Debbi Fields
I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
~ Og Mandino
Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.
~ Christine Feehan