Quotes about Empathy

I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your cynical zone, and open yourself up to what other people might experience and why they do so.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

America is a willingness of the heart.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.