Empathy Quotes

"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you." "I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering." "Each one of them is Jesus in disguise." "Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' " "When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself." "Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd." "It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them." "If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way." "May all beings have happy minds." "True love is born from understanding." "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." "In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast." "Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours." "If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?" "Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words." "Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception." "Radiate boundless love towards the entire world." "In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength." "Life is so very hard. How can we be anything but kind?" "All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill."