Empathy Quotes

"It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy." "You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves." "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." "When someone else's happiness is your happiness, that is love" "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain." "Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending" "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." "Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you." "May all beings have happy minds." "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." "When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself." "Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' " "Each one of them is Jesus in disguise." "I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering." "I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness." "A life not lived for others is not a life." "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." "I promise you there is something worse out there than being sad, and that's being alone and being sad. Ain't no one in this room alone." "If you see someone without a smile, give them yours" "Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe."