Quotes about Empathy
Live simply so that others may simply live.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
— Henri Nouwen
We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.
— Thomas Monson
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
— Maya Angelou
If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.
— Wayne Dyer
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
— Rick Warren
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
— Deepak Chopra
The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do
— Joyce Meyer
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.
— Wayne Dyer
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
— Barbara Kingsolver