Quotes about Empathy
Love isn't what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.
— Lysa TerKeurst
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
— Frederick Buechner
Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.
— Peter Kreeft
A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
— Henry David Thoreau
The only way to retain love is to give it away.
— Elbert Hubbard
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
— Albert Schweitzer
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
— Mother Teresa
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.
— Paulo Coelho
What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
— William Wordsworth
There is no love which does not become help.
— Paul Tillich