Quotes about Empathy

So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

Work will cure your grief. Serve others.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Never lose faith in your opportunity to lift those who are in need, to give strength to those who are weak, to give encouragement to those who falter by the way.

Our membership in this Church . . . should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.

Each of us can do a little better than we have been doing. We can be a little more kind. We can be a little more merciful. We can be a little more forgiving. We can put behind us our weaknesses of the past and go forth with new energy and increased resolution to improve the world about us, in our homes, in our places of employment, in our social activities.

Given what we have and what we know, we ought to be a better people than we are. We ought to be more Christlike, more forgiving, more helpful and considerate to all around us.

No humane being... will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

And she was always cold toward bats, too, and could not bear them; and yet I think a bat is as friendly a bird as there is.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.