Quotes About Empathy

Men often do their best work blind, for some one else's sake.

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger.

Gently, said the troop horse. Remember they are always like this to begin with. The first time I ever saw a man, I ran for half a day, and if I'd seen a camel, I should have been running still

One of the things that has to be learned is that even sorrow cannot be had in peace, because other people have sorrows too.

It's queer, she thought, when you're kind to people you can forget them but when you're not, you can't.

I don't expect you to understand me any more than I can understand you; but I respect you and that's the difference between us.

She did not know that males do not care to be circumvented, however wonderfully, by their females.

Every person needs to be needed, but being needed takes away from thoughts of yourself. This may sound selfish to your ears, but I do not think it is so. I know I am unable to be needed like others are. I know that my inner world would be jealous.

Fools. Do they pity Kanna? But Kanna cannot feel a thing, be it pain, fear or sorrow. She cannot even understand the reason for your pity.- Naraku

I too am subject to ageing, sickness, and death, not beyond ageing, sickness, and death, and that I should see another who is old, sick or dead and be shocked, disturbed, and disgusted —this is not fitting.' As I reflected thus, the conceit of youth, health, and life entirely left me.21

If we feel and learn nothing from the tragedies of the past, then we'll never know how to truly help avoid those same tragedies in the future. Certainly, we can't avoid all pain and suffering, but we can and should learn from it.

my blue eyes peering into their brown eyes and seeing there some essential part of myself, some irreducible aspect of my being, which in turn gave them back the same reflected version of themselves

It's coming to seem the only way to avoid hurting other people, which in his experience is what gives them power over you.

Listen, identify withe the victims and you become one yourself. Victims make lousy litigators.

She was like a stranger to me then, a stranger whose life had just been made utterly meaningless. I know this because I felt the same way. Meaning had gone wholly and and in one clot right out of my life too, and as result I'm sure I was like a stranger to her as well. Our individual pain was so great that that we could not recognize any other.

I trusted you with the idea of me and you lost it.

Such men will never know the added love of their culture which comes from a knowledge of other ways of life.

Humility has everything to do with love.

Does every young woman, she wondered, discover herself through the eyes of the men who love her?

I helped Jiko to her feet and we walked back to the bus stop together, holding hands again. I was still thinking about what she said about waves, and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again, and even though I know you can't hold on to water , still I gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away.

Sometimes you don't need words to say what's in your heart.

He hated the idea of killing people he could not hate.

One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first.