Quotes about Empathy
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
— Samuel Johnson
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
— Samuel Johnson
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
— Alice Walker
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The world is healed one loving thought at a time.
— Marianne Williamson
I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.
— Michael Smith
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
— Shirley Chisholm
Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.
— Thomas Monson
Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.
— Donald Trump
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.
— Mother Teresa