Quotes About Empathy

When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning.

I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn't die

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .

Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

If you think your lot in life has been hard read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.