Quotes About Empathy

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead