Quotes About Empathy

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Nobody understands your life, but you.

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.

The best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders.

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

There's something to be said about sitting in front of the TV and being removed from your own life and just pushed into another one.

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?