Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Mother Earth speaks to you through every flower.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.

Empathy is my good friend, but she doesn’t allow me to be angry.

Kindness can manifest as compassion, as generosity, and paying attention.

It’s the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else’s pain.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it’s very difficult to empathize across a moral divide.

Like many things in life, your compassion is a skill that can be exercised.

Empathy is the most revolutionary emotion.

Compassion is about giving all the love that you’ve got.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Empathy is the gateway; compassion is the way.

Empaths did not come into this world to be victims we came to be warriors.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

What you don’t realize is that the world does not need more perfection. It needs more compassion and empathy.

Empathy requires known that you know nothing at all.

One does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us.