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Quotes about Empathy

It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.
— Pope John Paul II
When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.
— Marcus Aurelius
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
— Thomas a Kempis
The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
With malice towards none; with charity for all.
— Abraham Lincoln
It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them. If we can't do any of that, then we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies' children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.
— Wendell Berry
Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn't shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.
— Wendell Berry
We don't need much imagination to imagine that to be free of hatred, of enmity, of the endless and hopeless effort to oppose violence with violence, would be to have life more abundantly. To be free of indifference would be to have life more abundantly. To be free of the insane rationalizations for our desire to kill one another-that surely would be to have life more abundantly.
— Wendell Berry
Ask yourself:...Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth...
— Wendell Berry
He knew that I was living in loss. He knew, if anybody did, that there was nothing that could be done about it, nothing certainly that he could do, and yet he came. He came to offer himself, to be with us in Virgil's absence, to love us without hope or help, as he had to do. This was a baby that needed to be stood by, and he stood by her.
— Wendell Berry
But if nobody can ever quite be nothing to you in Port William, then everybody finally has got to be something to you.
— Wendell Berry
Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
— Wendell Berry