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Quotes About Empathy

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
~ Lou Holtz
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
~ Elie Wiesel
We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
~ Shane Claiborne
In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.
~ Fredi Washington
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
~ Albert Schweitzer
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
~ Anthony Powell
To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
~ Baz Luhrmann
There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
~ Yasmina Khadra
I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
~ Stevie Nicks
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life
~ Narayanan Krishnan
How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?
~ Penn Jillette
Forgiveness is better than revenge.
~ Pittacus of Mytilene
True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.
~ Richard G. Scott
Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.
~ Robert Breault
I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.
~ Khloe Kardashian
I think that you've got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.
~ Thomas Keller
You don't learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
~ Lev Grossman
I'm always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.
~ Damon Dash
There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.
~ Michelle Pfeiffer
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
~ Paulo Coelho