Quotes about Empathy
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
— Leo Buscaglia
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
— Leo Buscaglia
Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.
— Leo Buscaglia
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
— Leo Buscaglia
I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
— Jane Goodall
Archbishop Tutu once explained to me that suffering can either embitter us or ennoble us, and it tends to ennoble us if we are able to make meaning out of our suffering and use it for the benefit of others.
— Jane Goodall
You cannot share your life with a dog or a cat and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
— Jane Goodall
Moral evolution, I think, is understanding how we should behave, how we should treat others, understanding justice, understanding the need for a more equitable society.
— Jane Goodall
Using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.
— Jane Goodall
The program—which is all about taking care of people so they are better able to care for
— Jane Goodall
How else can we become reconciled, except one individual at a time? This Jesus you seek did not come to address nations. He washed the wounds of lepers. He dined with sinners. He healed all who came to him. One person at a time.
— Janette Oke
You of all have the most to forgive." "Ah, and if so," he responded, "I have the most blessing to receive after I've done so."
— Janette Oke