Quotes about Empathy
One can put up with the petty things that hardly cause any discomfort, but not with senseless, ubiquitous cruelty. It's perfectly simple—if other people are happy, we're happy too. The simplest equation in the world.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Sometimes it happens that the souls of parents and children are fundamentally hostile to one another, and they meet in life in order to remedy this hostility.
— Olga Tokarczuk
The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You cannot hate other people without hating your self.
— Oprah Winfrey
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."
— Oprah Winfrey
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.
— Oprah Winfrey
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
— Oprah Winfrey
Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that respects that uniqueness.
— Os Guinness
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
— Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
— Oscar Wilde
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
— Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
— Oscar Wilde