Quotes About Empathy

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

As my mother once said to me, 'They're quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.

My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.

Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.

My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are... when goodness prevails... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.