Quotes About Empathy

A]ll the...people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

ambitious intelligence [is] a force that can demolish the 'heart's reasons' — namely, a warm empathy, a considerateness toward others, a willingness, even, to let them become one's teachers, however humble or troubled their lives.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do Or any kindness that I can show To any human being Let me do it now. Let me Not defer it or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

She discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.

Talk to her, goddamnit. She ain't a stick of furniture. She is one of God's creatures, and she will hear you. I see these goddamned people walkin' dogs, yakking on their phones, makes me wanna kick their sissy asses. What they got a dog for, they want to talk on their phones? That dog there will understand you, Officer James. She will understand what's in your heart. Am I just shouting at the grass and dog shit out here, or are you reading what I am telling you?

A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts.

The Answer" Will we speak to each other making the grass bend as if a wind were before us, will our way be as graceful, as substantial as the movement of something moving so gently. We break things into pieces like walls we break ourselves into hearing them fall just to hear it.

The tree cannot walk, all its going must be violence. They listen to the saw cut, the roots scream. And in eating even a stalk of celery there will be pathetic screaming.

When we do for those in need what they have the capacity to do for themselves, we disempower them.

you got to give it away to keep it

Best not to say what you think in order to give offence, obviously, not if you're nice, as we are. Whatever you say, though, someone will feel offended. On that question, I rather side with the Stoics, The Stoics held that offence has to be taken, it can't just be given, so we should try not to take it in the first place.

Never take anything that doesn't belong to you or that you haven't earned," he said, sliding into the car. "You never know who you're stealing from, and what that money means to them.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I'd never thought of Ernie as black. He was just my best friend.

They'd had conversations about Sloane's job, defending clients to the best of his abilities no matter his personal feelings about their innocence or guilt.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.

and those poor souls who were lonely and just wanted to talk.

She didn't have much choice. There wasn't anyone to comfort her, and so she'd never learned how to be comforted. She was trying.

Interrupting a man when he's discussing his profession is like telling him what he has to say isn't important. Besides, you never learn anything when you're talking." Lane

Interrupting a man when he's discussing his profession is like telling him what he has to say isn't important. Besides, you never learn anything when you're talking.

She was sturdy, which my mother had taught me was the polite word to describe someone overweight.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.   Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

there," Dan said.