Quotes about Empathy

To open the book of another's life requires great care, as the pages must be turned with delicacy and caution -- but it is usually worth the effort.

It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts

People always say that no matter how awful things are, there's always someone suffering more. It's true. It's not really helpful, but it's true.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

You can tell a lot about a man by watching how he treats those he doesn't have to be nice to.

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness — sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.