Quotes About Empathy

The objective of most corporate leaders is to use people to make a great company. My objective is to use the company to make great people. —Ralph C. Stayer

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.

Beauty is more than skin deep. Beauty radiates from deep within. The innocence of a child. The love in someone's heart. A willingness to help others. The desire to make the world a better place. Someone painfully knocked down in life, who gets up, smiles, and continues to blossom.

Don't hold resentments for the experiences that helped make you who you are

Don't make other people's issues your own

Forgiveness does not mean we simply forget, or we are ok with what has happened. Forgiveness means we understand humans unconsciously do horrible things. Forgiveness is a choice not to be held in a pain prison of the past. Forgiveness is to choose presence. Forgiveness is to choose peace.

Judging someone without knowing their life experience, without knowing their pain, by their physical appearance, by their social status, from your own belief system, from other people's gossip, is a very shallow view, and a very shallow opinion.

Our reaction to others does not define them, it defines us

Right living is the best way to eliminate suffering

Separation is an illusion, we are all in this together

Thank the people who wronged you for the lessons in life

The closer two hearts are to each other, the softer each needs to speak to be heard

The more we care, the greater the pain, and the greater the need for understanding

True friends, love you unconditionally, have no ulterior motives, want what is best for you, are honest with you. True friends don't always tell you what you want to hear. True friends tell you what you need to hear. True friends are a blessing.

We shine the brightest when we help others do the same. The result is a beautiful night sky

What's going on out there is a projection of what's going on in here

Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl. Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered. Take your time. Then imagine God. M. Barin, poet

The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.

What the hell did people have to keep them occupied on a damp and windy day in January apart from sitting indoors and lapping up the story of somebody who had suffered even more than they were doing.

The true revolution can only occur within the heart.

Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.

Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.