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Quotes About Empathy

Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.
~ Nido R Qubein
Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
~ Mark Nepo
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
~ John Lennon
Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Spread your love everywhere you go.
~ Mother Teresa
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
~ Wayne Dyer
Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.
~ Erich Fromm
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
~ James M. Barrie
Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
~ John Wooden
Be kind to one another, because most of us are fighting a hard battle.
~ Ian Maclaren
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
~ Meryl Streep
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
~ Alanis Morissette
You must feel love within, before you can share it.
~ Denis Waitley
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
~ Denis Waitley
The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.
~ Beth Comstock
He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.
~ Max Lucado
We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.
~ John Wooden
You can't be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
~ Jon Gordon
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
~ Claire Danes
It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
~ Tony Robbins
It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
~ Edmund Burke
Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.
~ Reggie Jackson
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
~ Meryl Streep