Quotes About Empathy

The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

How can I tell the signals and the signs By which one heart another heart divines? How can I tell the many thousand ways By which it keeps the secret it betrays?

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer.

If you want your life to get better, sometimes the best thing you can do is to help improve somebody else's life.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

I guess I have learnt now that life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.