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Quotes about Empathy

Archbishop Tutu once explained to me that suffering can either embitter us or ennoble us, and it tends to ennoble us if we are able to make meaning out of our suffering and use it for the benefit of others.
— Jane Goodall
You cannot share your life with a dog or a cat and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
— Jane Goodall
Moral evolution, I think, is understanding how we should behave, how we should treat others, understanding justice, understanding the need for a more equitable society.
— Jane Goodall
Using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.
— Jane Goodall
The program—which is all about taking care of people so they are better able to care for
— Jane Goodall
How else can we become reconciled, except one individual at a time? This Jesus you seek did not come to address nations. He washed the wounds of lepers. He dined with sinners. He healed all who came to him. One person at a time.
— Janette Oke
You of all have the most to forgive." "Ah, and if so," he responded, "I have the most blessing to receive after I've done so."
— Janette Oke
Ya hurt, Joshsh?" I thought that was quite apparent, but for someone like Sam who spent a good deal of his time on the ground, perhaps it was a reasonable question.
— Janette Oke
I don't know if you'll really get to know me unless you're close to me.
— Caeleb Dressel
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
— Napoleon Hill