Quotes About Compassion

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

There's a power in empathy.

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

The more you learn about someone, how could you not want to protect them and their rights? The more you learn about a culture or a certain identity, it's hard to not feel empathy.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

Watching the news, there seems to be an empathy failure and miscommunication.

I don't know if cinema can change society, but if it can make us show some empathy, that's a good start.

I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes.

I am more interested in teaching my children empathy than subscribing to our 'me' culture and obsessing about 'how do I feel' all the time.

I think my biggest role as a parent is teaching empathy.

Employ empathy.

I'm there for my friends, and I'd like to think I'm there for my employees.

I've urged employers to address workers' pain.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

We're all human at the end of the day. That's why I look at every person I encounter the same way.

At the end of the day we feel the same; we all hurt.

You never know what's going on in someone else's life and that you can't always understand how what you say or what you do - no matter how big or small it may seem to you, it could be the end of the world for someone else.

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.

We should live out our particular brand of faith, sure - but we should never force our brand of faith upon anyone else. All violence starts with the desire to change others and then never, ever ends.

I've been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn't have to go through.