Quotes About Empathy

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.

I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, 'I have a mother.

As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.

The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.

As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Heaven lieth at the feet of mothers.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.