Quotes About Empathy

I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing.

To touch is to give life.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.

What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.

Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.

Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

My aim in life is not to judge.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else's isn't.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.