Quotes About Empathy

He watched them with the passionate regret with which he saw them play football or go to dances: the activity itself did not interest, but the power to share it would have made him less apart.

I read an essay by a little girl ... She wrote,' I am nothing and nobody. My cat was stuck to the wall. I tried to pull her off but they threw my cat away.

She said she wanted to help little girls, mothers, prostitutes. he said this was a good idea because at present almost all who worked with these people had different sexual organs from their patients.

The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off—it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie vergessen hast.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Our task as humans is to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exist for other people

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.