Quotes about Empathy
Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own.
— Albert Schweitzer
Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.
— Albert Schweitzer
You must give time to your fellow men -- even if it's a little thing, do something for others -- something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. --
— Albert Schweitzer
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
— Albert Schweitzer
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.
— Albert Schweitzer
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
— Albert Schweitzer
But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere
— Albert Schweitzer
Ethik ist ins Grenzenlose erweiterte Verantwortung gegen alles, was lebt.
— Albert Schweitzer
When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts
— Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
— Albert Schweitzer
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
— Albert Schweitzer