Quotes About Empathy

In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

My biggest fear always is that I'll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.

When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as 'them' but 'us'.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.