Quotes About Empathy

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.

Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.