Quotes about Empathy

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

When Niebuhr thought a little more deeply about Darrow's empathy with black suffering, however, he said, "I suppose it is difficult to escape bitterness when you have eyes to see and heart to feel what others are too blind and too callous to notice."

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Why? Because I'm a special person? No. It had nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with me being the quarterback at the University of Florida. And to not take advantage of that is a shame.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.