Quotes About Empathy

You don't have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.

People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.

What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation or faith or ideology, was unthinkable.

Though they have not the capacity to reply, I refuse to believe that our pets have no comprehension

Can I persuade you that if you let a driver into your lane, or thank a sales clerk, or smile at someone in a hallway, you can change his or her life? Of course not—but if you don't go through the day with the assumption that small moments and small gestures can touch people's lives, what is the alternative belief?

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." —Aesop, "The Lion and the Mouse

consider how the world might be different if more of us conducted our social, business, and romantic lives with the belief that small steps matter, that even the shortest contact with another person is inherently important.

Kaizen offers the possibility that through small acts of kindness, and even small moments of compassion and curiosity, we can change ourselves—and, eventually, humanity.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

The difference is this: You're lonely when you have something to share but no one to share it with. You're lost when you have nothing to share, no matter with whom you live. Of course, you can be both lonely and lost, but of the two, lost inflicts the greater pain.

We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us

We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us, to live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.

Second, once inside this alien world, we find ourselves. Deep within these characters and their conflicts we discover our own humanity.

When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

There are many dear friends and loved ones that I hurt along the way.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." ? Martin Luther King Jr.

The golden rule of relationships is "Cause no indignity." A loving relationship is one in which both partners take care to protect each other's dignity. A wounded soul heals more slowly than a wounded body, so it is as important to avoid indignity as it is to avoid outright harm.

Let us see to it that ponderers, thinkers, feelers survive in our midst.

What we understand and love understands and loves us also.

A heaven opens when people are kind to one another.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

You can't control other people's behaviour, but you can conrol your responses to it.

It takes two to have a fight.