Quotes about Empathy

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Don't take things personally. Everything's not all about you.

Don't waste words with people who deserve your silence, Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a life time.

There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.