Quotes About Empathy

We have to start treating each other as if we are treating ourselves living another life.

A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.

Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

We've been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.

To be happy, make other people happy.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Live simply so others may simply live.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.