Quotes About Empathy

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

We can only know others by ourselves.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.

Life would split apart without letters.

We are all here on earth to help others.

Every thought and action of anyone affects everyone.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.

Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.

Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.