Quotes About Empathy

In hard times, it's easy to become hard. But here was a man who always looked for the best in folk. Didn't always find it, but never gave up looking. Wasted no time polishing his own name. Singing his own songs. Didn't have to.

his brother used to tell him it was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first,

Even for me. There's nothing like the company of someone even more wretched than yourself to make you feel better. Trouble is, take their misery away and your own presses in twice as cold and dreary behind it.

Since his earliest remembrances, Morveer seemed always to have had an uncanny aptitude for saying the wrong thing. When he meant to contribute, he would find he was complaining. When he intended to be solicitous, he would discover he was insulting. When he sought earnestly to provide support, he would be construed as undermining. He wanted only to be valued, respected, included, and yet somehow every attempt at good fellowship only made matters worse.

Small gestures and time. Rarely failed to win folk over.

It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us. Self-pity goes with selfishness, and there is nothing more to be deplored in a leader than that. Selfishness belongs to children, and to halfwits. A great leader puts others before himself. You

We're none of us hard as we seem.

Everyone should forgive themselves. After all, no one else will.

Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us. Self-pity goes with selfishness, and there is nothing more to be deplored in a leader than that. Selfishness belongs to children, and to half-wits. A great leader puts others before himself. You would be surprised how acting so makes it easier to bear one's own troubles. In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like

Eider frowned. Something for her to think about, perhaps? "I would have thought your pain would give you empathy." "Empathy? What's that?" Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. "It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

Her father would've said it's a good thing, to show mercy. Long as you also show, when it's needful, that you can make of your heart a stone.

What do you mean like ? Like, like like?

That thought, as the misery of others often can, made him feel just a little better.

I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket.

Rule 1: Know more about the customer than anyone else. Rule 2: Get closer to the customer than anyone else. Rule 3: Emotionally connect with the customer better than anyone else.

Stand in the horse's hooves. Study his history. Understand why he is the way he is, and why he acts the way he does. He's a prey animal. You mean like a rabbit?? Pretty much, yeah. But he weighs eleven hundred pounds!! Yep.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

When compassion becomes unconditionally ordinary and familiar for you, you have progressed from knowledge to experience to wisdom.

What we do unto others, we do unto ourselves.

move from being selfish to selfless.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

I believe in doing a job of work, not talking about it. I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing

Love requires Context.