Quotes About Empathy

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

Only human can learn from others' mistakes, and one who doesn't, ceases to become a human.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

Be curious, not judgmental.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.