Quotes About Empathy

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Imagine that it's not about the self and its concerns, about 'what's in it for me,' whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.