Quotes About Empathy

If you respond to a child who's having difficulty putting his emotions aside so as to think through solutions by imposing your will more intensively and "teaching him who's the boss," you probably won't help him manage his emotions. Quite the opposite, in fact.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

A hermit said, "Do not judge an adulterer if you are chaste or you will break the law of God just as much as he does. For he who said 'Do not commit adultery' also said 'Do not judge.

It's really easy to be patient and sympathetic with someone when it's theoretical, or only for a little while. It's a lot harder to deal with someone's craziness when it's constant. . . .

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

I've learnt that if you let out your anger on someone, it comes back to you like acid reflux and you've poisoned yourself and feel toxic and nauseated while the taxi driver probably just goes back to his home and wife and has a lovely life. I

The oxytocin doesn't just induce feelings of pleasure, it stimulates empathy and compassion, which are also contagious, and so we infect each other with kindness and that is when the human race is at its finest.

Think of a world of people born blind who, therefore, know only those objects and relations that exist through the sense of touch. Go among them, and speak to them of colors and the other relations that exist only through light and for the sense of sight. You will convey nothing to their minds, and this will be the more fortunate if they tell you so, for you will then quickly notice your mistake and, if unable to open their eyes, you will cease talking in vain . . . .

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

It does not matter if what I think differs from what the other person thinks. What matters is that, as a result of what I can contribute to the conversation, the other discovers what is right out of themselves.

Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. 'I don't know,' Cico answered, 'except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other - and it's worse when they're in a group.

What greater good could there be in a man's life than to lift the oppression that destroys them, what greater honor is there?

All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.

Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.

I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.

Holden found one helpless little hand that closed feebly on his finger. And the clutch ran through his body till it settled about his heart. Till then his sole thought had been for Ameera. He began to realise that there was some one else in the world,...

Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear

Let them fall, Mowgli. They are only tears.

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