Quotes about Empathy
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
jealousy is the grave of affection
- Mary Baker Eddy
Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
- Mother Teresa
One love, one heart, one destiny.
- Bob Marley
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
- Charles Dickens
The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.
- India Arie
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
- Thomas Merton
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
- Barbara Johnson