Quotes About Empathy

Others are run by people like the man I met in L.A. who too often seem to be playing out their own traumas and internal stigma on people too raw and fragile to argue back.

This is a common human response to the circumstances in which we all live. This is not something that separates you from the world. It's something, actually, you share with countless others." We need to see "this is not just my personal problem," he said, but "a shared problem—and attributable to the kind of society we live in.

Addiction," he said, "is a disease of loneliness.

the more a child is read storybooks—something the parents, more than the kid, choose—the better they are at reading other people's emotions.

every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.

reading fiction, over time, boosts your empathy.

clinical depression is an understandable response to adversity.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.

One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed

Los dolores serían menores entre los hombres si éstos (Dios sabe por qué están hechos así) no se ocuparan con tanto ahínco de imaginación en evocar los recuerdos de los males pasados en vez de soportar un presente tolerable.

Lieben ist menschlich, nur müsst Ihr menschlich lieben!

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.