Quotes About Empathy

The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.

I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.

Tres millones de almas podrán morir de hambre o ser asesinadas en el Congo sin apenas reacción por parte de nuestros medios de comunicación. Pero si una princesa muere en un accidente de coche, la cuarta parte de la población de la Tierra cae postrada de dolor. Quizá seamos incapaces de sentir lo que deberíamos sentir para cambiar nuestro mundo.

Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics—by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck. Is

As human being, we live in a perpetual conversation between conversation and violence; what apart from fundamental willingness to be reasonable, can guarantee that we will keep talking to one another?

Remaining open to the powers of conversation—to new evidence and better arguments—is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.

there seems to be no doubt that love and compassion are good, in that they connect us more deeply to others.30 Given this situation, we can see that one could desire to become more loving and compassionate for purely selfish reasons.

Any culture that raises men and boys to kill unlucky girls, rather than comfort them, is a culture that has managed to retard the growth of love. Such

Unless someone is suicidal or otherwise on the brink, deciding how much he should know about himself seems the quintessence of arrogance. What attitude could be more disrespectful of those we care about?

Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.

There is at least a billion people in this world, who would consider their prayers answered if they could switch places with you.

Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics—by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.

How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.

If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.