Quotes About Empathy

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other

Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow.

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.