Quotes About Empathy

There is injustice in this world, yes. But there is no need to add to it.

Above all, be compassionate. This is a stand against all evil and it opens your spirit.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity. To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the handwriting on the wall, set about to give them back their humanity.

Vajah beganagi nahin malum Tum jahan ke ho vahan ke ham bhi hain

Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

Sing to the lonely, comfort the frightened, and awaken the love in sleeping hearts

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as is one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists.

There are many paths you can follow to forgiveness. that was one: Understand that your present is different from your past. Here's another: Focus on how it's hurt you not to forgive yourself and on what you need to be safe.

Knowing there's a reason for what happens also saves us from being filled with blame.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Our capacity to forgive is our superpower.

the heaven to which Jesus points is the spaciousness within ourselves—one that makes room for those who threaten us, for those who are different, even for those who have betrayed us.

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Is it terrible to take solace in finding oneself better off than the huddled masses?

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.

It occurred to me that everyone's story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.