Community Quote by Howard Rheingold

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.

— James W. Pennebaker

My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who…

— John Lloyd Young

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

— Alan Hirsch

I've always felt solidarity with those people who have to cope with illnesses, including ones that are far worse than mine.

— Seve Ballesteros

Almost all human beings have the capacity for empathy. Everyone has the potential to be at least troubled, or feel genuine anguish, about the…

— Owen Jones

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might…

— Jim Valvano

There's a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?

— Anne Wojcicki

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we…

— Edwidge Danticat

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

— Anonymous

Unfortunately, many in our homeless community suffer from severe mental illness.

— Kevin Faulconer

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

— Millard Fuller

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

— Mary Robinson