Quotes About Empathy

I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.

There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

I don't want to eat anything that has a mother

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us.