Quotes about Empathy

An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Treat everyone on Earth like you're staying in their home. Because you are.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

We do not exist for ourselves...

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.