Quotes about Empathy

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.

I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

If you care enough about certain things and work for them, I think you are bound to find them in the people you are with.

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Think higher, feel deeper.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.112 They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

To really find God is to search for him not only in ourselves, not only in our loved ones, not only in our neighbors, not only in the strangers that we encounter, but ultimately in our enemies as well.