Quotes About Empathy

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?

My mother always told me,"hide your face- people are looking at you". I would reply,"It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban. A mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts.

I don't have to be logical - I'm a mother.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.