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Quotes About Empathy

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.
~ Ayelet Waldman
One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place.
~ Ben Gazzara
Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
~ Benjamin Carson
I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.
~ Bill Gates
My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it can happen to you, too. Not all of us made bad life choices.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think all life situations are built for you to be able to share.
~ Shonlock
It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.
~ Thomas Lansing Masson
When you think you are the king of the world, you are really stupid in my opinion because in this life every person is important.
~ Toni Nadal
Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.
~ Tony Robbins
Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.
~ Unknown
You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.
~ Wes Bentley
When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.
~ Benjamin Clementine
A glorious life is filled with companions who have open hearts.
~ Gary Zukav
When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
~ Jack Kornfield
You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
~ Jason Mraz
I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.
~ Liz Phair
Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.
~ Mother Teresa
That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
~ Carolyn Chute
Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in another person's day – or maybe even his or her life.
~ Cassandra King
Make gentle the life of this world.
~ Dylan Thomas
One: I am a Welshman; two: I am a drunkard; three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women.
~ Dylan Thomas
A hand rules heaven as a hand rules pity; hands have no tears to flow.
~ Dylan Thomas
Transcendent generosity is simply a willingness to be open and do whatever is necessary in the moment, without any philosophical or religious rationale. Seeing someone in need, you're willing to share your wealth, your happiness, or your wisdom, and you're also willing to share in the pain of others. Yet when you give, you need to do so with the awareness that your gift will be both appropriate and helpful.
~ Dzogchen Ponlop