Quotes about Empathy

If a person has known love, has felt and given love, that person's life has made a difference.

when He tells Moses, "When you go to Pharaoh, I will be with you" (italics added). For me, that is God's name, the essence of what He is about. God is the one who is with us when we have to do something hard. He is the one who is with us when we are tempted to feel that the world has abandoned us. He is the one who is with us when we feel alone in the valley of the shadow.

when you are able to forgive yourself and to forgive people around you for not being perfect, I will recognize you as My child.

My list of the worst offenses against God would begin with hurting another person, cheating another person, shaming another person.

We need other people, and we need to be needed by other people, in order to be who we might be, who we yearn to be.

The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.