Quotes About Empathy

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

Only the great Souls can and know how to love.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself.

There's nothing better than meeting somebody with a great soul, and a great spirit and a good heart.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

The great presidents are people who watch out for others.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.