Quotes About Empathy

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

Loneliness comes with life.

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

Do not be afraid to go and to bring Christ into every area of life, to the fringes of society, even to those who seem farthest away, most indifferent.

Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?