Top Empathy Quotes

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of...

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These pa...

My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and...

Everyone has it within their heart to be vegan, but each time they eat anything from an animal they deny that this is so, they deny that they have enough love in their hearts to show these animals mer...

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

God is that force that drives us to really see each other and to really behold each other and care for each other and respond to each other. And for me, that is actually enough. That cultivating it, t...

I do not believe it possible for one to genuinely love Truth more than people (or vice versa). One might fall into the snare of loving the search more than people, or the pride of having exposed somet...

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible...

I am because I feel.

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.