Quotes About Empathy

"I weep for you," the Walrus said:"I deeply sympathize."With sobs and tears he sorted outThose of the largest size,Holding his pocket-handkerchiefBefore his streaming eyes.

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Loving underlies effective learning: indeed, it is the basis of all cultural transference and interchange. No teaching machine can supply this.

For one second the woman and I seemed to become twins, or closer than twins, the same person together. Maybe we said nothing. Maybe we only lay in the band of sunlight that fell across our bed. Or maybe together we said, "There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.

Modern research affirms what all religions have known: Service to others brings gifts to oneself. As the Dalai Lama put it, "If you're going to be selfish, be wisely selfish, which means to love and serve others, since love and service to others bring rewards to oneself

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

All my music is driven by an urge to connect with people, to share with them in the experience of being human - the good, the bad, and the ugly!

To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird. Then, at the same time, you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

Everything in my life has come from an urge to share. Everything I've learned is from friends, family and copying.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

I think with any art making, there's a sense of urgency that you have for people to understand you.

Patience for me is a big thing. Patience with others. Patience with the way the world is evolving. I have a sense of urgency because I want to help out so much.

My interest is to establish an agenda of engagement with Mexicans that will respond to Mexicans' most urgent needs.

I think one of the bigger issues with modern-day people is that we don't give enough credit to people from history as being real. We almost treat them as these rarified beings that didn't exist the way that we do with emotions and urges and drives.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.