Empathy Quotes

They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened.

~ Aisha Mirza

Everyone carries a burden. Only the weight differs.

~ Kathy Katona Mcintosh

The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.

~ Emmuska Orczy

To be good, is to be like God. Our purpose in life is to try and reach that standard. We will always fall short, but in our lifetime if we try our best to make a world where everyone is treated equally with respect, empathy, and compassion, the big payoff is that we will be rewarded with that exact thing in Heaven.

~ Lewis N. Roe

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

~ Dale Carnegie

Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.

~ Shannon L. Alder

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

~ Criss Jami

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

~ Richard Rohr

No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Understanding that you can’t truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.

~ Tim Minchin

Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man not knowing what to say but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart. Those who are not afraid to hold a hand in gratitude, to shed tears in grief, and to let a sigh of distress arise straight from the heart, can break through paralyzing boundaries and witness the birth of a new fellowship, the fellowship of the broken.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

How does one develop compassion for someone with a completely different set of values without reading something from their point of view? Books are one of the ways in which we can truly get into the heads of people we would never meet in our ordinary lives and travel to countries we would otherwise never visit.

~ Jennifer Steil

If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased in direct ratio to the distance separating the sufferers from herself.

~ Marcel Proust

People said things to me like They're just animals. They're here for our use. I had a visceral reaction to that phrase, maybe because I was told countless times during my growing-up years that I was just like an animal. I had suffered much of my life because I was considered less than human. Animals were suffering because they were less than human. And it seemed to me that human didn't have much to be proud of, if they treated other living things with such blind cruelty.

~ Elizabeth Kim

Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?

~ Vironika Tugaleva

There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.

~ Gregory J. Boyle

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

~ Colin Mcginn

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If I could give one message to the bullied, it would be this: You are not alone. You are strong. You have a voice. You are beautiful. You are intelligent. There are many kids who want to speak up for you, but they don’t because they are afraid of becoming bullied themselves. There are many of us in the world who love you. I love you. You have the power to end this now. That power is in your voice. Find it. Once you use your voice, bullies want no part of you. If you feel that you lack the courage, fake it until you do. Finally, I know it’s hard to see a life that exists beyond high school. It is there, and it is beautiful.

~ Dan Pearce

Don't hate the bullies. Experience tells me that hating them, or being angry with them, will always make it worse. Instead, put your arm around them. Love them. Tell them that they are valuable. Tell them that you expect great things from them. They will stop the bullying. They will stop, because they will start to love themselves. And people who love themselves don’t bully others.

~ Dan Pearce

The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that.

~ Taylor Stevens

If I could give one message to the bullies, it would be this: You are incredible. You are bound for great things. You have the potential to be anybody you want to be. There are people who believe in you. There are people who love you. Be what we know you can be, even if you don’t believe in yourself right now.

~ Dan Pearce

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

~ Bryant Mcgill

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

~ Cheryl Strayed

I could really use someone else's smile today.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

~ Io Tillett Wright

Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life.

~ Piero Gheddo

The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.

~ Rob Liano

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.

~ Gerard De Marigny

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand.

~ Kim Harrison

I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.

~ Brandon Mull

That was the thing about her. When you told her about an incident where you so badly screwed up, half expecting her to laugh at you in amusement, half anticipating a smirk of disgust, she would hardly express her pity or maybe she did express what she felt, for she would just nod her head, gesturing you to go on... As if it's normal... As if you're normal.

~ Sanhita Baruah

You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What is love?It's not empathy, nor kindness.Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who empathizes.Kindness takes two, the one who gives and the one who takes.But love takes just one.The two get together into one.They don't separate.The I and the you disappear.I LOVE MEANS I DISAPPEAR..

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich