Quotes About Empathy

La guerra y las epidemias ya no tienen efecto sobre los hombres, contra tales cosas ellos están armados por su insensibilidad espiritual.

If you can do that, if you can find exactly the place where the other is and begin there, you may perhaps have the luck to lead him to the place where you are. For to be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner.

Mil gracias merece el que encontrándose con uno a quien han asaltado las tribulaciones de esta vida hasta dejarlo desnudo, le ofrece con la fuerza de sus palabras con qué cubrir su miseria.

Skal man hjelpe en annen, må man først finne ut hvor han er, og møte ham der. Dette er det første bud i all sann hjelpekunst.

Self-reflection is always an early step to healing, and forgiveness is the soul's sweetest healing.

People who never cried were the weakest of all.

But since when has a lust-intoxicated man thought about the feelings of others?

Is maith an scáthán súil charad!" Juniper replied ruefully. "A friend's eye is a good mirror!

Bleeding hearts were the easiest to confuse.

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

There are so many people, and they are so beautiful and hopeful. And they too are covered in holes. They each carry a bucket. And in each bucket is a hole. This is the song we're in.

We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.

Beware, beware of those who care,' as some wise person said. Not that I'm suggesting there is anything wrong with caring. But as Granny Maud used to say, 'Fine words butter no parsnips,' and she might have added, 'Caring should be felt and not heard.

And I have come to see that the better you treat someone, the more you love them – which is why you must never let someone treat you badly, for the worse they do to you, the more they will hate you. I

It is itself a kindness to accept kindness, Doctor.

Sam's father would have warned him that a man who lifts his hand to harm a friend harms himself the deepest.

I guess it's easy to lose yourself in a book," Leo said quietly, "when the real world doesn't feel so friendly.

Age and disease and death may destroy our physical being but it is other people who get inside us and damage our hearts and minds. The Other Side of You

I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world.

love is an emotion that recognizes itself in others.

If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.

the act of falling in love with a book or story changes us in some way, and the beloved tale becomes a part of our picture of the world, a part of the way in which we understand things and make judgments and choices in our daily lives.

Unashamed, accustomed to solitude, he began to enjoy his near-invisibility. From his position at the edge of the school around him, he took vicarious pleasure in the activities of those around him, silently celebrating the rise or fall of this or that playground emperor, or the examination failures of particularly unappetizing class-fellows: the delights of the spectator.