Quotes About Empathy

Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.

But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

that you should forgive those who have wronged you if for no other reason than to benefit yourself, and that your forgiveness will probably benefit you more than those you forgive. This is unbiblical.

Try to remember. Have you ever felt mercy in your heart where there was once hatred? Peace where there was once turmoil? Love where there was once greed and lust? Humiliation where there was once self-righteousness?

On what basis do they say that right and wrong is determined by whether it hurts someone?

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

If you don't have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

The best way to know life is to love many things

There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, "I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others." These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.

The more you love, the more you suffer

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

money can be repaid, but not kindness such as yours.

I thought I would be understood without words

it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

She and I are two unhappy ones who keep together and carry our burdens together, and in this way unhappiness is changed to joy, and the unbearable becomes bearable.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I want to paint humanity, humanity and again humanity.

Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is every deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, these open the prison by supreme power, by some magic force. Where sympathy is renewed, life is restored.