Quotes About Empathy

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

Any form of art is a form of power.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.

As a parent, my fear is that when we die, we'll have to watch all those moments in our lives when we were short tempered with our children, all the times they needed our love and we didn't give it, all those times we were distracted or in a bad mood, and all the times we were angry or impatient. My fear is that when the time comes, I'll have to watch all those moments again. That they'll make us watch them before we can get into Heaven

The poor (horse) had sure got a reason to be mean, and I guess he's at the point where he figgers no human is his friend any more.

To my way of thinking there's something wrong, or missing, with any person who hasn't got a soft spot in their heart for an animal of some kind. With most folks the dog stands highest as man's friend, then comes the horse, with others the cat is liked best as a pet, or a monkey is fussed over; but whatever kind of animal it is a person likes, it's all hunkydory so long as there's a place in the heart for one or a few of them.

I am blessed. I am blessed because I am going to go long before any of them do. I am not going to have to grieve for them, because they are going to have to grieve for me.

You look at me like I have something to be sad about. My existence makes you grateful you are not me.