#empathy

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Shared joys are doubled, while shared griefs are halved.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Let your heart be as wide as the ocean.

Whenever you are in doubt, apply the talisman: recall the face of the poorest person you have seen and ask if your next step will be of any use to them.

The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

You look at the fish darting freely in the water and say, 'Look how happy they are.' How do you know? I know it by the joy I feel beside the river.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over.

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun.

You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person.

If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Darling, I know you suffer, and that is why I am here for you.

Even a creature an inch long possesses half an inch of soul.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.

The axe forgets the blows it dealt, but the tree remembers every scar.

One single heartfelt sigh from an oppressed soul can shake the foundations of heaven.

Do not judge your neighbor until you have walked two full moons in their moccasins.

Listen with the ear of your heart, not just with the ear of your head.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.