Quotes About Empathy

Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

The horrors of the world in general upset me. I cry when I think about how lucky I am with my lovely little family.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well.

No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?

The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.

World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.

I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

I'd just say you hurt me and you hurt me only because you involved my family. But after that I'd say 'hey draw nearer to your family because that's exactly what I did.'