Quotes about Empathy
Whoever is happy will make others happy to.
— Anne Frank
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
— Anne Lamott
Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.
— Anne Lamott
It's better to be kind than to be right.
— Anne Lamott
It's better to be kind than to be right.
— Anne Lamott
You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are feeding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
— Anne Lamott
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
— Anne Lamott
Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
— Anne Lamott
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
— Anne Lamott
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
— Anne Lamott
Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable.
— Anne Lamott
As far as I can recall, none of the adults in my life ever once remembered to say, "Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams. However, you're not going to feel that a lot in seventh grade. Just hang on.
— Anne Lamott