Quotes About Empathy

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.

I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can't even imagine and has gone through horror that I can't even imagine.

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.