Quotes About Empathy

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better

There's a power that movies and music has, that can move you and motivate you to look at your neighbor in a slightly more respectful way, and look at cultures in a more inclusive way.

There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I'm interested in.

The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn't we be able to take it back if we have the power to?

Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself.

There is no limit to the power of loving.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?