Quotes About Empathy

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'.

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have.

The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

Life isn't about what you have but what you have to give.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human.

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

I know for a fact that I am not as fulfilled, happy or passionate about life if I have not spent time helping others.

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.

People are not things, you cannot have ownership.

Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.

Good writers touch life often.

I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!