Empathy Quotes

"Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind." "I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship." "Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It’s also chicken shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously. Most of the cruelty in the world comes from people who are miserable with themselves." "We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity." "Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other" "The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power" "If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem" "When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul." "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like" "The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude." "Your business and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them " "When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever, and you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it, you just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are." "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone the courage to make tough decisions and the compassion to listen to the needs of others" "Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry" "Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened" "To understand is to forgive" "Our job is not to judge" "It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own" "The only way to have a friend is to be one " "I try to give the audience a sense of the wide range of human experience"