Quotes About Empathy

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

I don't know if you have the words I need. I know you didn't need the ones I had.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.

I think—" Anakin kicked his heel against the polished marble floor. "I think I hate it when I can't stop my men from getting hurt. From dying. I think—

Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.

Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

You carry the weight of the preternatural world on those big shoulders of yours. But your heart is even bigger, and the burden you harbor there heavier.

They fear as I once feared you, " he said. "As you once feared me. We are all someone's monster, Nina

Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

In the world of lovers, there is no fear.

When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.

As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.