Quotes about Empathy

Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.

The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.

there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished ...

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.