Quotes about Empathy

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner.

Before you act; Listen, before you react; Think, before you spend; Earn, before you criticize; Wait, before you pray; Forgive, before you quit; Try.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.

Focus on serving others. ... No matter what is going on around us, we can attend to the people in front of us, to the issues confronting us and there, we offer what we can. We can offer insight and compassion. We can be present. We can stay and not flee. We can be exemplars of the best human qualities. That is a life well lived, even if we didn't save the world.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]

We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground