Quotes About Empathy

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Make 2012 the year that you were nice.. because people don't like not nice people.. so be nice.. all the time!

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Children need systems that are inclusive and driven by them, systems that will enable them to respond to their feelings and needs at any time.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

My beloved child, break your heart no longer. Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.