Quotes About Empathy

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

If you really want to change someone's life today, don't just pray for them... pray with them.

My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.

LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody

Take a vow for a life of service to others.

As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.

It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life... even if only a little bit.

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings

It's ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There's many different sides to everybodys personality and there's just different colours to a personality.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

Bob Riley, a kind soul who "treads lightly in this world," is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.