Quotes on “empathy”

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

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

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

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.

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.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

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