Quotes about Empathy

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.

To not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.