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

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.

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

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.

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.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay, but acknowledging that it is not.

People need people who show that they care.

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and yourself.

Patience and empathy are angers mortal enemies.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.