Quotes About Empathy

But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.

Someone has been tortured on my behalf. Someone has been tortured on your behalf. Someone in this world will always be suffering on your behalf. If it comes your time to suffer, just remember. Someone suffered for you. That is what taking on a cloak of human flesh is all about, the willingness to hurt for another human being.

The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked more easily then, just a cloud reflected in a stream.

The worst kind of loneliness gripped him. The kind you feel alongside another person.

Pollux's grandma had once told him dogs are so close with people that sometimes, when death shows up, the dog will step in and take the hit. Meaning, the dog would go off with death, taking their person's place. I was pretty sure that Gary had done this for Roland and then visited the store to let me know.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human, are we?

Because we shared the loneliness that was one shape. Because I knew that in her old age she shared that same boat, where I had labored. She crested and sank in dark waves. Those waves were taking her onward, through night, through day, the water beating and slashing across her unknown path. She struggled to continue. She was traveling hard, and death was her light.

This statement tallied with Washington's often expressed view that citizens had to feel before they saw—that is, they couldn't react to abstract problems, only to tangible ones.

He felt at home in many places.

Do unto others as they would do unto you—and do it first.

During his first year on the job, the young clerk donated about 6 percent of his wages to charity, some weeks much more.

I remember how fascinated I was with his letters

they had genuine affection for Jack.

Eliza received sympathy from her neighbors, who felt she was being abused by her husband. Yet she remained loyal to him

Sensitive to her delicate psychological state, he sent her gently whimsical letters.

Her father was slowly dying of stomach cancer while she was writing her series, and this might have further embittered her toward Rockefeller

Even as he scared people away, he was a lonely man

About his nose, Pierpont could be more sensitive than he was about his trusts.

Let him take his time, with gentle management. Make him feel that he is giving it, not that it is being taken from him with violence.

Though he was exacting and did not pay high salaries, he never yelled at his employees and dealt with them in a patient, considerate manner, occasionally inviting them to sit by the fire for a chat.

But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.

You was the onlyest person that looked past my skin and past my meanness and saw that there was somebody on the inside worth savin...We all has more in common than we think. You stood up with courage and faced me when I was dangerous, and it changed my life. You loved me for who I was on the inside, the person God meant for me to be, the one that had just gotten lost for a while on some ugly roads in life.

Ever man should have the courage to stand up and face the enemy,' I said, 'cause ever person that looks like a enemy on the outside ain't necessarily one on the inside. We all has more in common that we think. You stood up with courage and faced me when I was dangerous, and it changed my life. You loved me for who I was on the inside, the person God meant for me to be, the one that had just gotten lost for a while on some ugly roads in life.

I have learned that I cannot see into a person's heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.