Quotes About Empathy

That for the most part, people had the same needs, the same wants, the same desires. They wanted the best for their loved ones and grieved when life brought them short of that.

presence. "Just let it out, honey. You've been carrying this around for too long. It's okay to let go.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." ? Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you judge people you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. — Abraham Lincoln

We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.

Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts; it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why?

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Every artist who creates intense depictions of his own problems, which he believes not only to be important to him, but also to others, needs to use himself.

What matters most of all in life is being able to make that contact with another human. Otherwise you are dead, like so many people today are dead… But if you can take that first step toward communication, toward understanding, toward love, then no matter how difficult the future may be – and have no illusions, even with all the love in the world, living can be hellishly difficult – then you are saved. This is all that really matters, isn't it?

It ended because of a set of discovered conclusions. Among them, that mob consciousness responded collectively NOT to rational intellectual perspectives, but to some kind of emotional empathy that was somehow subconsciously TRANSMITTED. This, however, could not be explained unless the concept of telepathy was brought into consideration.

all things are considered, the survival of our species probably owes a great deal to the Way of empathic compassion whose innate categories are somewhere incorporated into its innate procreating consciousness.

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.

But the Indians gesture touched me. It was nothing, but it was everthing. It took so little to mane a difference.

He who could hear my heart knew that I was crying out for help.

Aquella tarde, bajo la maldita lluvia, acurrucada sobre mi infortunio, entendí que sin duda podía ser como ellos.

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Before saying anything, always think to yourself, "Since my life is not a porno, will this creep her out?"

How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?