empathy Quotes

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.