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Quotes About Empathy

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
~ Cornel West
Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.
~ Courteney Cox
I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.
~ Dionne Warwick
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
~ Donald Miller
Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.
~ Elie Wiesel
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"
~ Epictetus
One has to live a life that creates a writer.
~ Erno Paasilinna
It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.
~ Paul Gascoigne
But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.
~ Paulo Coelho
I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.
~ Peter Drucker
Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
~ Rajneesh
What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us
~ Rick Warren
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
~ Aesop
As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
~ Barbara Johnson
I don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids.
~ Bruce Jenner
The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.
~ George Shinn
While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.
~ Helen Keller
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
~ Isaac Rosenfeld