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Quotes About Empathy

What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not trample upon the egos of those we deal with.
~ Les Giblin
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
~ Mariah Carey
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
~ Maya Angelou
The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.
~ Mercedes McCambridge
Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.
~ Mother Teresa
I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.
~ Na Hae Ryeong
I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.
~ Panda Bear
Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep.
~ Pope Francis
I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
~ R. Lee Ermey
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.
~ Roy Jones Jr.
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
~ Samantha Power
In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.
~ Shailene Woodley
I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.
~ Sharon Horgan
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
~ Sharon Olds
Keep compassion close to your chest at all times.
~ Sho Baraka
It's all about getting them back in, and I think…my husband and I talk about it all the time…it's about making it personal for the guest.
~ Stephanie Izard
I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.
~ Stevie Nicks
Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.
~ Stuart Duncan
Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant.
~ Uwem Akpan
I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
~ Wayne Coyne
I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
~ Euripides