Quotes about Empathy

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement. Watch yourself. Of all the manifestations of Resistance, most only harm ourselves. Criticism and cruelty harm others as well.

What could be more natural for this man than to draw to his bosom all with whom he shared that time, even his foes? Perhaps his foes more than any.

The capacity for empathy and self-restraint will serve us powerfully, not only in our external wars but in the conflicts within our own hearts.

The amateur is often unkind or insensitive to others, but she saves her most exquisite cruelty for herself.

All beings are one. If I hurt you, I hurt myself.