Quotes about Empathy
The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.
— Dorothy Day
No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?
— Mother Teresa
If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
— Mother Teresa
One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa
— Mother Teresa
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.
— Mother Teresa
Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.
— Danny Silk
To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.
— Brennan Manning
Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.
— Charles Swindoll
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead
— St. John Chrysostom