Quotes About Empathy

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.

The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.

Life's too short to not be around nice people.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," was how I was raised, and how I lived for most of my life.

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

What's hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn't feel like enough. But it is.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.