Quotes About Empathy

It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

If I want to be remembered as anything in this life it's just 'nice'.I feel like being nice to others is the coolest thing anyone can be.

There's this quote that says "friendship isn't how long you've known someone, but who walked into your life, said 'I'm here for you' and proved it."

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

I treat the camera like a person—I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don't allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.