Quotes About Empathy

Until a man is struck in his own face he does not want to believe the attack on his brother concerns him.

But once you allow yourself to think that there are some people, because of their race, their color, or religion, who are really not human beings you have established a justification for imposing every sort of humiliation on them.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

Yes, as distasteful as it is, it is beneficial to talk to people who disagree with us. So if you hate conspiracy theories and run into someone who believes that we faked the moonlanding and Einstein plagiarized relativity from his mailman, don't tell him, 'You life is a cruel joke' and walk away. Have tea with him. It can broaden your style of thinking, and it's cheaper than seeing a therapist.

In particular, what seems special about humans is our desire and ability to understand what other people think and feel. Called "theory of mind," or "ToM," this ability gives humans a remarkable power to make sense of other people's past behavior and to predict how their behavior will unfold given their present or future circumstances.

But ... no ... there I go, being vindictive and vengeful myself, wishing harm on others as they have wished it on me. I have to watch that in myself. I have to step on the head of that snake every time it rises. There's always someone to hate. The list of those who have earned our hatred — and spurned our hatred — is endless. Shall we draw up lists of each other's crimes? Must we hate each other for all time?

i am everyone I am everyone who ever died without a voice or a prayer or a hope or a chance … everyone who ever suffered for being an Indian, for being human, for being indigenous, for being free, for being Other, for being committed.… I am every one of them. Every single one. Yes. Even you. I am everyone.

Yes, even we prisoners are human. I suppose every man proclaims himself innocent, whether innocent or not. But, I tell you, even the guilty are human. And, as for the innocent who are branded as guilty, theirs is a special agony beyond all comprehension.

Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Live a balanced life—learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

Bleed with us.

You never get a blessing for yourself. You get a blessing to bless others. In the words of the black church, "a blessing can't get to you unless it first can go through you." We are blessed to bless.

Do you want to hear Jesus speak? Go to where the wounds are. Find wounded people, hurting people, suffering people, and you will find Jesus.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life does not deserve it. Never destroy another life through rage, or through malice.

There will come a time when men look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

My body is not a tomb for other creatures.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

Verrà il tempo in cui l'uomo non dovrà più uccidere per mangiare, ed anche l'uccisione di un solo animale sarà considerato un grave delitto

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.

În ultim? instan??, îngrijitorilor poate c? le pas? cu adev?rat de ceilalÈ›i, dar nu sunt capabili s? le ofere mai mult. Este posibil ca acel ceva s? nu fie ceea ce îÈ™i doresc ceilalÈ›i de la ei, dar, pân? ce nu se vor elibera de trecutul lor toxic, e tot ceea ce pot face. Din acest punct de vedere, merit? mai degrab? compasiunea noastr?, decât judecat? È™i critic?.

Îngrijitorii trebuie s? se menÈ›in? spre calea spre autofocusare, indiferent de r?spunsul pe care îl primesc din partea celorlalÈ›i.

Pe parcursul recuper?rii, îngrijitorii trebuie s? continue s? cear? în mod direct s? li se împlineasc? nevoile È™i dorinÈ›ele È™i s? nu mai aÈ™tepte de la ceilalÈ›i s? ghiceasc? la fix care sunt aceste nevoi.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.