Quotes about Empathy

Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as "an apothecary for the soul.

Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.

I think as queer people, we were very used to accommodating.

You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.

We budget quite a bit of money every year in order to assist people who are migrating here, people who are trying to enter into our society and be a part of the American dream.

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.