Quotes About Empathy

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. The same holds true for music.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

Apathy in the face of continual violence is something someone who has never lived through a war cannot understand.

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

Men and women who know themselves well stand an excellent chance of selecting a mate well suited to them.

There are few character traits that stand out in this world more than a generous heart.

True prayer is joining with God's heart. God's heart is full of love for those who are the lost and least in this world. You cannot draw near to God and remain callous to the hurting.

Emails we can read, say no to 'send a receipt', mark as unread, categorise, label and put in a folder whilst drinking tea and thinking about other things. It's hard work making the right noises and facial expressions in response to an in-person reminder.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

I'm a 'people pleaser'—I think most performers are, and when I'm in front of an audience I'll try to make those folks happy any which way I can.

And each one there has one thing shared; They have sweated beneath the same sun, Look up in wonder at the same moon, And wept when it was all done, For being done too soon.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

CARTER Come on, be honest! The thing they represent that's so scary is what we could be, how vulnerable we all are. I mean, any of us. Some wrong gene splice, a bad backflip off the trampoline … too many cartons of Oreos! We're all just one step away from being what frightens us. What we despise. So … we despise it when we see it in anybody else.

TOM Old people, though? Come on. We're all gonna age. It's … CARTER Not me. I hope I'm a goner before then. The elderly make me sick …

I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there were Jews in America, and trying to explain it to them. Ashea, I wished I could say. Ashea.