Quotes About Empathy

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I'm reading always reminds me of whatever's happening in my life during that time.

To forgive is to set someone free.

I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Every little bit of peace I bring someone is worth the peace I never had.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.