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Empathy Quotes

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts"
Charles Dickens
"We need never be ashamed of our tears"
Charles Dickens
"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far."
Daniel Goleman
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together"
Desmond Tutu
"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous"
Emile Zola
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
George Eliot
"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view"
Harper Lee
"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind"
Henry James
"Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity"
Ian McEwan
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
Immanuel Kant
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."
John Stuart Mill
"A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just."
Pope Francis
"We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family."
Pope Francis
"To change the world, we must be good to those who cannot repay us."
Pope Francis
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
Ronald Reagan
"Life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion"
Simone de Beauvoir
"Be curious, not judgmental"
Walt Whitman
"The only way of knowing a person is by loving them without hope"
Walter Benjamin