Audrey Hepburn Quotes

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I was different.

One cannot reach paradise by creating Hell for others.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.