Quotes About Empathy

Something I've never been able to adapt to, to understand is how they can lavish such love and care on the animals and then see them sold for slaughter. I don't dare say anything about it, though. Richard and his friends would be down on me in a flash. But there's some kind of cold, unfeeling contradiction in that business.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

She was magnanimous to former opponents, never retaliating against supporters of her former husband or other adversaries, personal or official.

With tears in her eyes, Alexandra assured him that the husband and father was infinitely more precious to her than the tsar whose throne she had shared. Nicholas finally broke. Laying his head on his wife's breast, he sobbed like a child.

In actuality, the sociopath is not without a morality; he is simply without the one we want.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Protecting the weak is the whole fucking basis for civilization. If you're not protecting the weak, you're not civilized. You're fucking animals.

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

Worriers are most concerned they are not nurturing and caring enough toward other people. They worry about letting other people down, that other people are upset with them, and that other people are unhappy. In fact, worriers tend to be better than nonworriers in anticipating the feelings of other people.8

I'm not okay, you're not okay—but that's okay.

People matter more than things.

ventured a couple of negative comments about her father, and never tried it again. "It was

We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

Some people carry their life in a glass of water and splash it on everyone they meet.

Se volvió a mirarnos: ni siquiera había odio en sus ojos, sólo lágrimas y más lágrimas y la aturdida expresión de súplica del animal que ha sido abatido.

We were so close to being one of the actual victems. It makes you feel humble.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

It has taken me the time since you diedto discover you are as human as I am…if I am.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.