Quotes About Empathy

If someone really interests you, you'll learn about them yourself.

he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives

You can't supply some other adult with something they don't have. Any more than you can sustain a relationship by offering up your sense of yourself as a kind of bribe. In the end, everyone loses.

his legacy, if there is one, is that I try to do my best to see people whole, for who they are and what they've been through. especially those who matters to me

This country needs a leader, not a pollster; a healer, not a wheeler-dealer; a conscience-raiser, not a fund-raiser.

I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.

If you are treated like dirt long enough, you begin to fell like dirt

By learning to let go and to allow the world and fellow human beings to be who and what they truly are, a disciple frees her or himself to love—to the death.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

Life is not yours to take.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.