72 Empathy Quotes For Kids
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To live life, it's important to be around people and feel what they are going through.
Many of you must wonder how you can understand people better or have the ability to put yourself in someone else's situation and think accordingly. The whole world is in the same boat, and you can make it better by expressing a few kind words and showing compassion to anyone who is having a hard time.
Practice empathy as it makes the world a worthwhile place to live in. There are a few things that are important in our everyday lives, and a little kindness makes everything better.
Human life is full of ups and downs, and the smallest act of empathy can bring joy and comfort to people. Kidadl did its research and got a few quotes that can help you and your children understand compassion and how it can be included in your life in the purest form.
Empathy helps make a person better and is an essential quality one should have. Kidadl brings a few quotes on empathy to make it easy for your kids to empathize with people.
Empathy Quotes For Kids About Friendship
Friendship is a basic necessity of human life and should be essential for everyone. Find a few empathy quotes for kids about friendship here.
“We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with another's ears, and to feel with another's heart.”
- 'Friendship', Joel D. Block, 1980
“One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider a problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.”
- E. H. Mayo
“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.”
- Richelle E. Goodrich
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Carl W. Buechner
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
- Thomas Aquinas
“The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance, online or off, urge us towards empathy. They give us comfort and also pull us out of the prison of ourselves.”
- Esther Earl
“A friend is one who rejoices in our good and grieves for our pain, and this purely on our own account.”
- 'Rhetoric', Aristotle
“Friendship is the [mutual] empathy of the hearts and the harmony of the souls.”
- Imam Ali
“ A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.”
- Sushan R. Sharma
“You need to interact with strangers, hurt them, get hurt by them, learn about people, and learn about yourself too, or else you can't become capable of true empathy.”
- Shigure, 'Fruit Basket', 2019
“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.”
- 'Anam Cara', John O'Donohue, 1996
Cute Empathy Quotes For Kids
Please find some cute quotes that can help your kids understand what empathy means.
"Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world."
- 'Practicing Peace In Times Of War', Pema Chodron, 2006.
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
- Meryl Streep, 1991
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectations of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
- Princess Diana
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
- Dalai Lama, March 7, 2014, Washington.
“Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.”
- Rachel Joy Scott
“Instead of putting others in their place, put yourself in their place.”
- Amish Proverb
“Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.”
- Jesse Jackson
“The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.”
- Maya Angelou
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
- Jack Kornfield
“Peace equals the ability to handle conflict, with empathy, non-violence, and creativity.”
- Johan Galtung
“The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world.”
- Plato
“When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.”
- Gavin Hood
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
- Maya Angelou
"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce."
- 'Peace Is Every Step', Thich Nhat Hanh, 1990
“One of the many gifts that books give readers is a connection to each other. When we share an affection for a writer, an author, or a story, we also have a better understanding of people unlike ourselves. Books cultivate empathy.”
- Sarah Jessica Parker
“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It is the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.”
- Barbara Kingsolver
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around it.”
- Atticus Finch, 'To Kill A Mockingbird', Harper Lee, 1962
“We have a whole new year ahead of us and wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little gentler with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe next year at this time we'd like each other more.”
- Judy Garland
“Empathy is communicating that incredibly healing message of you are not alone.”
- Brene Brown
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
- 'Amelia Earhart', Victoria Garett Jones, 2009
Short Empathy Quotes For Kids
Here are a few short empathy quotes for your kids.
“ Always be a little kinder than necessary.”
- James Barry
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
- Blaise Pascal
“We rise by lifting others.”
- Robert Ingersoll
“Empathy is the medicine the world needs.”
- Judith Orloff
“The highest form of knowledge is empathy.”
- Bill Bullard
“To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.”
- Stephen Covey
"We need empathy, we need eyes that still can weep."
- Lydia Millet
“We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.”
- Bill Drayton
“A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.”
- 'Winnie-The-Pooh', A.A Milne, 1926
“The least you can do is have a little empathy.”
- 'Rick and Morty', Season 4
“Whenever possible, handle challenges with logic, kindness, patience, and empathy.”
- 'Do Your Best Every Day To Do Your Best Every Day', John Cena, 2021
“When life gets you down, do you wanna know what you've gotta do? just keep swimming!.”
- Dory, 'Finding Nemo', 2003
"Keep taking time for yourself until you're you again."
- Lalah Delia
“True contentment comes with empathy.”
- Tim Finn
“Empathy allows you to meet cruelty with compassion.”
- Toni Morrison
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
- Kahlil Gibran
“Anger is easy, empathy takes practice.”
- Kathy Sisson
“Empathy before education.”
- Marshall B. Rosenburg
“I do not ask a wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
- 'Song Of Myself', Walt Whitman, 1855
“Design, story, symphony, empathy, play, meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world.”
- 'A Whole New Mind', Daniel H. Pink, March 24, 2005
Inspirational Empathy Quotes For Kids
Inspiration is an important factor and that is why here is a list of inspirational empathy quotes for you and your kids.
“The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.”
- Maya Angelou
“Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”
- Barack Obama, April 7, 2009
“Compassion, empathy, and love are the real pillars we need to build within ourselves to become human.”
- Loknath
“Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.”
- 'Brain Rules For Baby', John Medina, October 12, 2010
“If there is one secret of success, it is the ability to get another person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.”
- Henry Ford
“There is no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.”
- Germany Kent
“With courage, you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble.”
- Keshavan Nair
“Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you are not alone.”
- Brene Brown
"Extreme acts of cruelty require a high degree of empathy".
- Will Graham, 'Hannibal', Season 3
“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
- Dean Koontz
“If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.”
-Alicia Keys
“This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.”
- Jackson Galaxy
“An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathetically hold both parts of ourselves, the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.”
- Marshall Rosenberg
“Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and yourself.”
- Carl R. Rogers
“Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.”
- Roger Ebert, July 2005
“Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.”
- Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain
“Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle. And if you want to see what people are, all you have to do is look.”
- Auggie Pullman, 'Wonder', 2017
“If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.”
- 'Queen Of The Cinder Track', Ron Hotchkiss, 2021
“If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself.”
– Paul Auster
"All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart."
– Tahereh Mafi
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