Quotes About Empathy

little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.

I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.

All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.

The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life.

Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?

We all go through life and say a lot of things that we don't really mean.

No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.

I never want to possibly take another life in my hands.

I lived my life where I didn't have anything. I lived my life where people picked on me. Now that I am in a different light, I appreciate every moment of it.