Quotes About Empathy

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

I would like to understand my father.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.

Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Today, I'm a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn't have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.