Quotes About Empathy

When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they're obviously missing something from their lives.

If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?

When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.

Those who teach the most about humanity, aren't always human.

It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad.

What good is "Loving thy neighbor as thyself" if you don't Love thyself?

When you open a door for others, you sometimes open doors for yourself.

You cannot be a positive influence to the "sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them.

We must learn that when people devalue any one Life, they devalue all Life.

When you show others love, you are shown love. When you give love, you receive love.

If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.

I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.