Quotes About Empathy

For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...

human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.

Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does.

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

ALL human beings are equal no matter their race, social, political and economic status. No one can eat, excrete, sleep, bear your pains and die your death for you no matter your might.

And she didn't judge nobody. She loved everyone equal- accountants, queers, musicians, she welcomed us all, said we were all idiots just the same.

When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves.

Tears don't make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.

Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

Dogs experience the world as it is, without judgement. When we learn to do the same, we make the world a better place.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.