Quotes about Empathy

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.

I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

the better angels of our nature

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

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

That's what love does. It doesn't stop to consider the cost. It just...acts. Puts itself out there.

Maybe if we saw love more in each other, it might be easier to look up and accept it from God.

How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone on the journey with the character, suffered with and experienced the joys and triumphs of the character, as well as learned the lessons and truths, only then have you, the author, done your job.