1,354 Quotes About Empathy

Listen with a heart, but answer with a soul.

You should not judge; you should understand.

The shortest path to happiness is the path of love.

By placing attention on what it is like to walk in another’s shoes, we step outside of ourselves and into a never-ending community.

In the process of becoming conscious beings, we eventually come back around again and again to the ideas of compassion, caring, and empathy.

At that moment I felt that no physical pain could possibly amount to the wrenching one pounding within my heart.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.

Is this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equaliser, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.