Quotes about Empathy
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
— Henri Nouwen
Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
— Samuel Johnson
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.
— Roy Bennett
The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
— Rick Warren
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.
— Desmond Tutu
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
— Confucius
Live simply so others may simply live.
— Mother Teresa
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
— Wayne Dyer
You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.
— Paul Allen