Quotes About Empathy

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

Sometimes in real life, people can be a bit too unaccepting.

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.

Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving

For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.