Quotes About Empathy

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.

Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.

Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'