Quotes About Empathy And Kindness

#1. Surround yourself with friends and family who want to practice empathy and kindness. New mothers and parents are the ones who can benefit enormously from this support - we all can.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

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

Debasish Mridha

#3. I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.

Paul Bloom

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

Debasish Mridha

#5. There is no small act of kindness.

Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Debasish Mridha

#7. 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

#8. His success in dealing with the strong egos of the men in his cabinet suggests that in the hands of a truly great politician the qualities we generally associate with decency and morality - kindness, sensitivity, compassion, honesty, and empathy - can also be impressive political resources.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#9. 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

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

Jana Elston

#11. 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

#12. I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.

Brandon Mull

#13. There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

Bryant McGill

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. 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

#18. Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections.

Mary Baker Eddy

#19. Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

Shannon L. Alder

#20. 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

#21. The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Shannon L. Alder

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

Shannon L. Alder

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

Shannon L. Alder

#25. Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. Simple kindness as a means to no other end than itself is not something that springs up and flourishes on its own. Compassion is cultivated. Empathy needs watching over. It's not enough to simply plant the seeds. Their fruits are not native to the soil. Left to itself, the untended heart grows cold.

Marc Parent

#27. I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.

Nikki Rowe

#28. If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Shannon L. Alder

#30. Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

Rebecca Solnit

#31. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

Paul Bloom

#32. It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

Emily Giffin

#33. Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. I could really use someone else's smile today.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#35. There is no small act of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#36. A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.

Shannon L. Alder

#37. Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#38. 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

#39. True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Andre Gide

#40. Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.

Kim Harrison

#41. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#42. Give children kindness, presence, and respect to help them develop a deeper sense of empathy. The art of seeing and meeting others as they are.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#43. She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Dean Koontz

#44. Conrad glared at him coldly. Jed could detect no human feeling or care or empathy coming from the man. This was a man who did everything by the book, and it was obvious that he didn't let anything - emotions, mercy, kindness - affect his decisions.

Jay Allan

#45. When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.

Edward De Bono

#46. 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

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

Amit Ray

#48. Criticism, can be done with a kind heart and an earnest word to stimulate learning. However, sometimes with no accountability there is no regard for kindness or empathy to help another grow

Eri Nelson

#49. Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.

Edward Hoagland