Quotes About Empathy

Heal the world, one broken heart at a time.

Love is a commodity whose treasure-house increases when we give it out.

Sometimes it is better to find the spot where we agree and build a relationship that will be the best medium for working through our difficulties.

Gandhi refused to accept that tanks and bombs constituted a nation's ultimate strength. To him, the health, education and unity of a nation's people were more important.

Ambedkar said he had been 'surprised, immensely surprised' to find 'so much in common' between Gandhi and himself. 'If you devoted yourself entirely to the welfare of the Depressed Classes', Ambedkar said to Gandhi, 'you would become our hero'.

Like Guru Nanak after him, Baba Farid suggested that at a basic level a Muslim and a Hindu were the same, sharing the joy and pain of being human.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, 2nd edition,

shun rash judgment. Even if you should see your neighbor doing what is wrong, refuse to pass judgment on him, excuse him instead. Excuse his intention even if you cannot excuse his act, which may be the fruit of ignorance or surprise or chance.27

I always loved him more after he had scolded me than I did at any other time.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Society is a hospital of incurables

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.