Quotes about Empathy

How can we love our country and not love our countrymen; and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they're sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

If you can do that, if you can find exactly the place where the other is and begin there, you may perhaps have the luck to lead him to the place where you are. For to be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

You are because I am and I am because you are. We are one another's strength.

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.

Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.

We are one another's strength.

A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.