Quotes about Empathy For Others
Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.
— Thomas Jefferson
Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.
— Moby
I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
— Mother Teresa
One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
— Thomas Monson
God lets you go through challenges to give you credibility in a certain area and the ability to help someone else out of a situation that you once were in.
— Bishop TD Jakes
There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his mine. Pain everywhere was an occasion for goodness always.
— Victor Hugo
When we look deeply and honestly at our own suffering, energies, and views, we find a peace that comes from being comfortable in our own bodies. But our true home is not only inside us. Once we have become comfortable in ourselves, then we can begin listening deeply to the suffering of our loved ones, and begin understanding their experiences and views. Then we can become a true home for each other.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If a woman essentially abandons her family to ambitiously serve God, she will likely display the same lack of compassion and empathy for others as she does for her own family, who feel her absence keenly.
— Gary Thomas
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
— Cicero
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
— Phillips Brooks
Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?
— Ezra Taft Benson