Quotes about Empathy

She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself.

Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.

I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how depeately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.

It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate

We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

Never… be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."