Quotes about Empathy

Give first, no matter what your circumstances may be.

When you don't want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.

You can think the world of others, but if you never actually tell them, then you don't really help them.

If you are willing to make success about giving rather than gaining, you will find your life to be greatly rewarding.

Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.

Produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.

if you have a positive, joyous outlook, the joy you share will be returned to you.

Our goal should be to treat others better than they treat us.

Sometimes the best thing we can do for someone else is to hold our tongue. When tempted to give advice that's not wanted, to show off, to say "I told you so," or to point out another's error, the best policy is to say nothing. As nineteenth-century British journalist George Sala advised, we should strive "not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than wounds we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet there is no peace without forgiveness.