Quotes about Empathy

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

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.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.