Quotes about Empathy

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

Love that cares, listens.

There is no love which does not become help.

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

The gratitude of those who receive help is first and always gratitude for love and only afterwards gratitude for help.

But if it is life alone that dies, love is born, which is the innermost part of the spirit. It is the most mature and most precious fruit of the life that sacrifices itself. Love breaks out of the prison of individualism and nationalist stupidity. Love goes to another person, even one with a different language or of a different race, and returns from him richer.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

The wise are wise only because they love.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.