Quotes about Empathy

The distance between two souls is love.

The heart carries loads that the hands cannot.

The shortest distance between two hearts is compassion.

The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens.

The weak hold onto grudges; the great hold onto love.

The world is full of angels; if you can't find one, be one.

Those who truly know you see your tears even in the rain.

What you seek for others you find for yourself.

Lacking real compassion and charity for others, he would take pleasure in weeping and rejoicing with the fictional characters on the stage. His love was not real.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

He saw you cast into a river of life you didn't request. He saw you betrayed by those you love. He saw you with a body that gets sick and a heart that grows weak. He saw you in your own garden of gnarled trees and sleeping friends. He saw you staring into the pit of your own failures and the mouth of your own grave. He saw you in your own garden of Gethsemane and he didn't want you to be alone ... He would rather go to hell for you than to heaven without you.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.