Empathy Quotes

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.

I had a dream that I was in someone else’s shoes for once…they were the wrong size.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?
Then, leave me to my foolishness.

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested.

None of us can choose where we shall love...

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

To perceive is to suffer.

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

Each person you meet
is an aspect of yourself,
clamoring for love.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

I stumble and fall.
I weep and struggle to rise.
My mom feels it all.

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.