Empathy Quotes

"It's All Right to Cry When You're Happy."

- Naruto Uzumaki

"The Pain Of Being Alone Is Completely Out Of This World, Isn't It? I Don't Know Why, But I Understand Your Feelings So Much, It Actually Hurts."

- Naruto Uzumaki

"When someone is sad, sometimes all they need is a hug and to know you’re there for them."

- Bluey

"Empathy is feeling with people, and it makes us understand each other better."

- Bluey

"Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is listen."

- Bluey

"my dear, I have nothing to say. my heart burns like the evening sky."

- Sanober Khan

"I’m coming back in and it’s the saddest moment of my life."

- Edward White

"I have silences buried so deeply, I weep when they blossom."

- Pavana Reddy

"I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people."

- Fred Hampton

"I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began taking the time to listen to their stories."

- Michelle Alexander

"Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.”"

- Rob Bell

"Feeling heard and understood allows children to release their feelings, let go and move on."

- Janet Lansbury

"Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first, we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?"

- Jane Nelson

"Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt."

- Mitch Albom

"A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to."

- Robert Brault

"When your child is in the midst of a meltdown, remember that they are not giving you a hard time, they are having a hard time."

- Dr. Laura Markham

"Meltdowns and tantrums can be valuable moments for parents to strengthen their bond with their child. Approach them with compassion, patience, and a willingness to understand."

- Dr. Ross Greene

"Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff."

- Catherine M. Wallace

"Empathy with children during a tantrum is not rewarding behavior. It’s meeting a need, the need for connection and understanding."

- Rebecca Eanes

"Nothing that grieves us can be called little. By the eternal law of proportions, a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of his crown are events of the same size."

- Mark Twain

"You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel worse. When children feel better, they behave better."

- Pam Leo

"Everyone I know, everywhere I go People need some reason to believe I don’t know about anyone, but me If it takes all night, that’ll be all right If I can get you to smile before I leave"

- Jackson Browne

"Strength and intelligence without empathy wouldn’t make you a good person, let alone a good leader."

- Picazo Basha

"Every LGBTQ+ refugee has a unique situation—but the fear and pain they endured before coming to Canada is universal."

- Arsham Parsi

"Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don’t; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside. Whenever we humans enter their world, from our farms to the local animal shelter to the African savanna, we enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike."

- Matthew Scully

"When embraced and accepted, negative emotions can be a powerful catalyst to positive change in one’s life and can lead to a deeper feeling of meaning and authenticity."

- Dr. Paul TP Wong

"No matter who it is or how comfortable you are with someone, when anyone yells at you or talks down to you, you immediately erupt in tears."

- Lauren Jarvis-Gibson

"I’m extremely-extremely sensitive. I can cry at the drop of a hat… Anything upsets me. I cry all the time. I cry when I’m happy too."

- Mandy Moore

"No one can truly understand the bond we form with the cats we love until they experience the loss of one."

"Let it out. Let it _all_ out."