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Quotes About Empathy

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
~ Betty White
Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.
~ Gwen Cooper
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs.
~ Lee Clow
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Ive always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!
~ Tippi Hedren
Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.
~ Aldous Huxley
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
~ Bernie Siegel
When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.
~ May Sarton
Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Its difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind
~ Linda Blair
Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.
~ Hilary Swank
You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.
~ C. S. Lewis
I am a huge animal lover. I prefer to rescue any of the pets that I have had.
~ A. J. McLean
You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
~ Harper Lee
They're not so bad. They just need some attention. ...Like pets. Or my brother.
~ Rick Riordan
I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
~ Ioan Gruffudd
Never get your girlfriend a pet that she didn't know she was getting.
~ Emmy Rossum
Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.
~ Mark Rubinstein
She was better with animals than people. Give her a sick cat or dog, she was golden. Not so much with her own species.
~ N. Raines
We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.
~ Cyrus the Great
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
~ Frederic Chopin
For others, in spite of myself, from myself.
~ Emmanuel Levinas