Quotes About Empathy

How can anyone be against love?

You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

Even though I have many obstacles in my life, I don't want people to feel bad for me.

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

The art of life is loving and listening to one another.

Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

My life is only important if i can help plenty of people

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.

Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.