Empathy Love Quotes

#1. Walking a mile in someone else's shoes isn't as much about the walk or the shoes; it's to be able to think like they think, feel what they feel, and understand why they are who and where they are. Every step is about empathy.

Toni Sorenson

#2. If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.

Ellen J. Barrier

#3. Compassion, empathy and love are the real pillars we need to build with in ourselves to become human.

Loknath

#4. Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.

Jo Coudert

#6. Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

Augustus Y. Napier

#7. For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.

Criss Jami

#8. To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

Stephen Batchelor

#9. The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

George Bernard Shaw

#10. What we understand and love understands and loves us also.

Robert Walser

#11. Empathy is a kind of care but it's not the only kind of care, and it's not always enough.

Leslie Jamison

#12. You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Geraldine Brooks

#13. Designing memorable experiences is easier said than done. Most importantly, you need empathy and understanding for your fellow human. It's the love for mankind that ultimately makes UX interesting.

Safari Content Team

#14. Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

Dean Koontz

#15. Reason is powerless when we express love with empathy and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see ... Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive ...

Ashok Kallarakkal

#17. While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement and the love of others who are travelling, or have travelled, this terrain - or those who having lived life long and deep and can meet us there, with wisdom and compassion.

Meryn G. Callander

#18. Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

Eyedea

#19. The size of her heart left me breathless. The scope of her empathy left me stunned. The depth of my love left me terrified.

Adriane Leigh

#20. Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.

Gina Maranto

#21. But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Cheryl Strayed

#22. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

Tahereh Mafi

#23. The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

Brian A. Jackson

#24. Because silence is the birthplace of happiness. Silence is where we get our bursts of inspiration, our tender feelings of compassion and empathy, our sense of love.

Deepak Chopra

#25. Love is a combination of virtues. The amount you receive from someone is based on the percentage of those virtues learned and applied. Unhappiness in a relationship is not a lack of love, but a lack of virtues in the percentages your significant other needs.

Shannon L. Alder

#26. Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

Khalil Gibran

#27. Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone's life.

Amit Ray

#28. Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.

Aspen Baker

#29. If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

Israelmore Ayivor

#30. Hurting someone will not impress them. Intelligence requires empathy to work. Water is wet. The sky is pink through these rose-tinted glasses.

F.K. Preston

#31. I'm not interested in whether you've sat with the great; I'm interested in whether you've sat with the broken.

Unknown

#32. This is where the will to grapple with our hard and pressing environmental problems begins: in relationship to something other that you love beyond any utility, beyond any logic.

Susan Freinkel

#33. I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.

Kathy Bates

#34. Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.

Brent L. Top

#35. Everything is going to be alright' doesn't mean stubbing your toe won't hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle

Brian A. Jackson

#36. I am not interested in whether you have stood with the great; I am interested in whether you have sat with the broken.

Unknown

#37. In His wisdom, our God formed us out of the dirt. In His empathy, He spent a life walking through our dirt. In His grace, He let His sacrificial blood fall to the dirt. Then in His love, he picks us up from that dirt.

Jeremy Stephens

#38. The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

Molly Antopol

#39. There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

Patrick Rothfuss

#40. None of us can choose where we shall love...

Susan Kay

#41. When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?

Vironika Tugaleva

#42. Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.

Hal Elrod

#43. Healthy self-care means finding fulfillment so that you have energy, love, and empathy for others. Finding the middle ground means realizing that it is not an either-or situation - you are neither full of self nor drained of self.

Karyl McBride

#44. Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever.

Vironika Tugaleva

#45. Forgiveness was work, Eduardo told victims' families
but so, then, was love, and deciding what was right, and defending it. Recusing yourself from judgment so you won't be tainted by the aggressor's sin is the same as turning away from empathy so you won't be touched by the victim's pain.

Jennifer DuBois

#46. When you use the power of empathy, love and kindness to heal the humanity, it dances with joy, gratitude, and humility.

Debasish Mridha

#47. If you can leave a relationship with love, empathy, and compassion, without any thoughts of revenge, hatred, or fear, that is how you let go.

Brian L. Weiss

#48. Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant.

Lolah Runda

#49. There are basically two kinds of people: those who have empathy and care about others and those who don't. The ones who don't are creating most of the problems in the world.

Laurence Overmire

#50. If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

Richard Kearney

#51. Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.

Tiffany Madison

#52. Choose empathy over apathy.

Mango Wodzak

#53. I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach - everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness - that I had grown used to and now thought of as being love.

Olivia Sudjic

#54. If We Can't Find Love In Our Hearts To Help All In Humanity ... Then At least Find the Empathy To Stop Keep On Hurting Them!

Timothy Pina

#55. We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#56. You will never develop courage if you don't stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.

Shannon L. Alder

#57. In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose.

Jana Elston

#58. If something or someone doesn't work, it's in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If it does work, it has merely completed its job and is probably dead.

Andrew Solomon

#59. Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.

Miya Yamanouchi

#60. There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil: it is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, jealousy, resentment, lies. The other is good: it is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed. - Cherokee proverb Spanning

Angela Stevens

#61. The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Oprah Winfrey

#62. None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race.

Jason Versey

#63. All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Elizabeth Goudge

#64. I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports, and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress, and elevates empathy.

Lisa Kogan

#65. There's a war between two wolves inside everybody. One is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other's good. It's love, peace, beauty, happiness, truth, hope, joy, humility, kindness, and empathy.

"Who wins...?"

"The one you feed".

MK Asante

#66. The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Vironika Tugaleva

#67. Kindness carries no price tag neither does it require making a purchase. A random act of kindness can change someone's life...choose to be kind always.

Kemi Sogunle

#68. Spirituality without hate is a lie. If you can't feel anger, you can't feel love. Empathy without disgust isn't truly empathy. When you become more aware, you become more aware of everything. That makes you more sensitive too - sensitive to cry and sensitive to hate.

Robin Sacredfire

#69. Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already.

Robin Sacredfire

#70. Peace,love,empathy

Kurt Cobain

#71. Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

George McGovern

#72. It's not so much the journey that's important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way

Jeremy Aldana

#73. In the end many will remembered you for your love, help, empathy & contributes to helping build a brighter world. Start building those memories today. Kindness is everything.

Timothy Pina

#74. When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions

Sunday Adelaja

#75. Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

Tariq Ramadan

#76. People like it when others fail and suffer. They get assured they are not alone in that predicament

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#77. Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.

Anthony Marais

#78. I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

Yoko Ono

#79. Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love.

Jude Bijou

#80. Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

Shannon L. Alder

#81. You are too sensitive", says the emotionally immature ignorant without empathy.

Robin Sacredfire

#82. I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.

Unknown

#83. Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy.

Haruki Murakami

#84. When you know the truth about a person then they become real to you, not just a face that you can forget.

Drea Damara

#85. In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.

Shannon L. Alder

#86. If you're treating people poorly then you're not emulating God's love. God always resides with the broken hearted.

Shannon L. Alder

#87. Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#88. You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.

Shannon L. Alder

#89. As content strategist Jonathon Colman, who works for Facebook, told me: "Start with empathy. Continue with utility. Improve with analysis. Optimize with love.

Ann Handley

#90. The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.

Ashly Lorenzana

#91. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

Cherie Carter-Scott

#92. Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself ...

Joe McMahon

#93. Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!

Shannon L. Alder

#94. You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Those most likely to befriend strangers, in other words, are those who have been strangers themselves. The best way to grow empathy for those who are lost is to know what it means to be lost yourself.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#95. There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.

Gregory J. Boyle

#96. Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Albert Schweitzer

#97. I stumble and fall.
I weep and struggle to rise.
My mom feels it all.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#98. No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#99. Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

Aberjhani

#100. This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Joseph Conrad