Quotes about Empathy
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
— Stephen Covey
It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!
— John Lennon
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
— Joseph Campbell
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
— John Keats
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.
— Rick Warren
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
— Margaret Fuller
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
— Mark Twain
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
— George Eliot
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
— Jim Rohn
Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.
— Richard Wurmbrand