Quotes about Empathy

Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over.

Blessed also are the poor in spirit socially.

One who cares for another assumes the weight of the other's condition on his own heart and bears it in love.

The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.