Quotes About Empathy

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

Love without conversation is impossible.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

You don't build a bond without being present.

If we approach other people understanding our own value, being confident in who we are, being centered and grounded, it's actually easier for us to connect with them because we can listen more deeply and we can express ourselves more authentically without fear of being judged or not being enough.

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I've worked with a lot of people who've gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it's a big damn deal.

You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.

There are some things that you see that are hard to talk about. You can't talk about it. You just bear witness to them.

The entire world is a witness to the phenomenon that sorrows keep away from the kindhearted and compassionate.

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.

My mother had Alzheimer's, and it's a desperately, desperately cruel thing to witness.

I was witness to a beautiful relationship between cricketer Anil Kumble and a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy. Moved, I wrote 'Spin' - a small film about a cricketer and a spastic boy. But I couldn't find backing.

Animals in the streets have tough lives, so it's up to all of us to speak out if we ever witness them being abused.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.