The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.

Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.

We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

...empathy is the most important power there is. Without it, we are doomed. With it, we can truly change the world.(interview from USC)

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.