Quotes about Empathy
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
— George Washington Carver
Once become satisfied that a man loves you, and you will listen gladly to anything he has to say.
— George Whitefield
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
— Aesop
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
— Henry David Thoreau
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
— Samuel Johnson
There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.
— Anonymous
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
— Anonymous
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
— William Hazlitt
The love we give away is the only one we keep.
— Elbert Hubbard
Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
— Leo Buscaglia
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
— CS Lewis
It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.
— Mother Teresa