Quotes About Empathy

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

We are all neighbors. Be kind. Be gentle.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

The dignity of our neighbors deserves to be defended.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.

I am not someone who is different from Colorado. I am part of Colorado. I am like my neighbors and my community.

Someone like Donald Trump can't control the way I show love to my brother. He can't control the way I feel about my neighbors.

The Japanese style, they really do have concern for their neighbors kind of more than themselves.

Constituent service is about meeting our neighbors where they are.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

I have nothing against Vince Neil at all.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.