Quotes About Empathy

If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild...

Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious and compassionate can take you out of your ego and edge your soul towards wonder.

Sometimes you have to trust your heart, too. You give what you think the other person needs, and hope they know that you're doing it out of love.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make me feel important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Well, perhaps he's not my best friend, but I don't think he hates me anymore.

Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.

It was so easy for women,their arms opened out instinctively and they gathered in whatever hurt there was and that was that, they didn't even have to think about it.

he could see now that it was possible; that someone might be in so much pain they couldn't even hear what anyone else said, far less be comforted by it.

Engrave this upon your heart: there isn't anyone you couldn't love once you heard their story.

There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story.

There isn't a person you wouldn't love if you could read their story

My mother knew when to listen and when to pray and when to help. I wonder hoy many people knew the compassion Mary Finlayson held for them and how hard, in the privacy of her God Box, she prayed for them and their struggles.

One of the nicest gifts we can give the person we're sharing our lives with is the support and time to pursue his/her passion — even if we don't fully understand it.

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

There is an Angel called Charity who often would save our hearts a great deal of trouble if we would but let her in.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

I would always think the worst of people and it would keep me from them because I couldn't accept myself.