Quotes About Empathy

Police officers put up barbed wire around their hearts to protect them.

Solitude is much preferred to the more disturbing isolation of sharing loneliness with a stranger. I

Real friends care little for forms.

They hated children as they hated themselves; they beat them for their own good, and educated them from the perspective of their own incapacity to love life.

It's so easy to fall into ruts and niches in our real lives, and I want online worlds to offer us exotic experiences and interaction with people we wouldn't interact with otherwise, and a chance to try out lifestyles and worldviews we otherwise wouldn't have, a chance to try to solve problems that we find difficult to tackle in the real world. Otherwise, why bother making them?

Elderly people reach out and hold the hand of people who speak to them. Imagine holding hands while we argue. Our life will be different.

Size does matter: Try to surround yourself with people who are blessed with a big heart.

Hatred is self and other destructive

You can't fake listening. It shows.

**(c)(p) I COULD NEVER BOAST THE ABUNDANCE OF WEALTH BECAUSE I HELP THOSE IN THE POVERTY FROM WHICH I GREW WITH THE LITTLE RESOURCES WHICH I WORKED FOR. I DO NOT NEED THE SPOTLIGHT TO SHOW WHAT I SHARE. THOSE WHO ASKED BOB MARLEY ABOUT MONEY GOT ONE STRAIGHT ANSWER-WHAT IS MONEY TO YOU?. HE TURNED THE QUESTION BACK AT THEM. I TAUGHT HIM THAT IN TRENCH TOWN.WE NEVER STOLE FROM ANYONE! POVERTY DOES NOT TURN YOU INTO A THIEF! GREED AND ENVY DOES THAT! I AM RAS CARDO.

**I, RAS CARDO WILL SAY THIS TRUTH:ANY WHITE OR BLACK PERSON WHO WILL LOOK AT ANOTHER -HUMAN BEING- AND SAY THAT BEING IS A-NOBODY- IS TELLING THE WORLD THAT HE WHO SPEAKS IT IS -A SOMEBODY. THIS LIKE THE--N- WORD IS ONE OF THE MOST DENIGRATING AND HATEFUL REMARKS ANYONE COULD MAKE. THIS WAS THE SAME WORDS THAT-CHRIS BLACKWELL OF ISLAND RECORDS OPENLY SAID IN MEDIA ABOUT US FROM TRENCH TOWN.

listen!! my real wish is for people of all races, ethnicities, class and creeds, to show humanity, love and respect for each other. this was the same things bob marley, peter tosh, and all our trench town people wished for, but never see materializing. I did say- man is a communal animal. if he loses this communality then he will perish and become extinct my reggae aims to keep that wish alive. but still I hope..

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate behavior. . . . Individuals and countries with power need to develop wisdom and compassion, for without these attributes, there is a danger that the power will be used to oppress and exploit others. (31)

You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

Unexpected inspiration strikes those who observe the world with heightened awareness, greater intensity, and divine empathy.

I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

God comforts us to make us comforters, not to make us comfortable.

You cannot figure out crazy. Just keep smiling and nodding.