Quotes about Empathy

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.