Quotes About Empathy

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.