Quotes About Empathy

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.

Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?

'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.

I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

And I'm drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I'm sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

Using your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.

Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else's eyes, when your only hope of believing you're capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.