Empathy Quotes

"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far." "We need never be ashamed of our tears" "Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts" "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another" "If you are feeling helpless, help someone." "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you." "Compassion is the basis of morality." "It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again" "There's no such thing as a weird human being, it's just that some people require more understanding than others" "We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful." "Life should touch you, even if you are handling the dead." "Without the necessary sense of inclusiveness, love is just an entanglement, not an envelopment." "Morality doesn't mean 'following divine orders'. It means reducing suffering" "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price" "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will." "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." "The worst prison would be a closed heart" "Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy." "You don’t look down on them and say ‘You’re a fool for being so sad.’ You say ‘I’m sad too, man, I know. I get it.’" "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"