Quotes about Empathy
We don't need to be taught to lie, or to be selfish or cruel or vindictive—we need to be taught how not to.
— Steven James
Part of living is acknowledging people's pain and grief, but not letting it take over your heart. Though it's always nighttime in the depths, the waves still reflect the day.
— Steven James
If you don't find forgiveness, you'll never end up with peace,
— Steven James
you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello.
— Stormie Omartian
I don't usually talk about the social work I do because I don't do it for publicity. If I can bring a smile to the face of a few children in this one lifetime, I'd be happy.
— Vivek Oberoi
There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.
— Max Lucado
The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.
— Blase J. Cupich
People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
— Eugene Peterson
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
— Joe Biden
Only God can look at somebody's heart.
— Joel Osteen