Quotes about Empathy
You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.
- Shane Claiborne
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
- Melody Beattie
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
- Mark Twain
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
- George Eliot
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
- Jesse Jackson
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
- Pope John Paul II
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
- F Scott Fitzgerald
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
- Albert Einstein
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
- Paulo Coelho