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Quotes About Empathy

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you
~ Melissa Etheridge
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
~ Christina Stead
Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
~ Alice Mattison
As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.
~ David Dayan Fisher
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
~ William Hazlitt
Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world.
~ Christina Baldwin
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
~ Eudora Welty
The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.
~ Ronald Reagan
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
~ Alfie Kohn
People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.
~ Jean Vanier
Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
~ Gautama Buddha
A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
~ Rick Warren
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
~ Hippocrates
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
~ Desmond Tutu
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
~ Thurgood Marshall
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
~ Max Lucado