Quotes about Empathy

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

I wanted my new release 'Get Back Up' to benefit Haiti in their tragedy and I am blessed to use my music to help as your purchase becomes our gift.

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.