Quotes About Empathy

Feel good, be good, and do good.

Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.

Recognize the other person is you.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

Each planet has its own orbit agenda. Think of people close to you as planets. Sometimes it's nice to just watch them orbit and shine.

Think that snow is falling Think that snow is falling everywhere all the time When you talk with a person, think that snow is falling between you and on that person Stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow

We may all possess wisdom if we are willing to be persuaded that the experience of others is as useful as our own.

I saw Jews raising Torah scrolls, which contain the injunction to remember that we were strangers in Egypt and so we must treat the stranger fairly, dancing in the streets emptied of their Palestinian neighbors. The insistence on empathy with the stranger appears with greater frequency in the Torah than any other verse—including commandments to observe the Sabbath and keep kosher.

Curiosity led to empathy - the great enemies of self-righteousness.

Look into those they call unfortunate, And closer view'd, you'll find they are unwise.

First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!

There is only one race ... and it is human!

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.

It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write. Nothing in the world, perhaps, is so likely to forge a connection between people as pain, because the connection that comes from that source comes from deep in the heart.

It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write.

That is the real tragedy: poverty and hunger are not as shocking as willful indifference to them.