Quotes About Empathy

It's really cool to be around people that are younger than you who are really cool with being open about stuff.

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage

Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

It hurts to care; the courage to care is the profoundest courage there is.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.