Quotes about Empathy

Everyone, everything, needed love.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Nor knowest thou what argumentThy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.All are needed by each one;Nothing is fair or good alone.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

You could tell a lot about someone by listening to him talk about his enemies.

You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.