Quotes About Empathy

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

Highly sensitive people are often afraid to speak up, until life pushes them to do so.

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

We want the same effect as if someone's house burned here. We want to give them a normal life as soon as possible.

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

I'm infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.

My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.

I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I'm in.

I hate cats. But this cancer cat made me feel bad, so I was like, Okay, I'll take her back to L. A. and give her her last six months of pain-free life.