Quotes about Empathy

You see, whenever we live in relationship, whenever we simply live in proximity to other people, sooner or later we will run up against their issues—the unhealed or unholy parts of their personalities. Just as they will run into ours. Living in community is like a pack of porcupines sharing the same den. We will get stuck.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!