Quotes About Empathy

They criticize because they don't have a life. It's easy to criticize another person.

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one's life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness .

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

No one in your life is with you constantly. No one is completely on your side.

We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

The essence of love is kindness.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

It's rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they're all invested in what you're doing.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.