Quotes About Empathy

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

A dog more than the canine animal. A dog is everywhere you go together, every living creature you meet along the way, and the human you become with your canine.

Some things about being human can't be learned from your own kind..

PROVERBS 15:1 | A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.

What happened has hurt us. Now you have to work this out.

A sacred heart means you may feel tortured and betrayed, powerless and hopeless, and yet stay open. It's the capacity to encompass the entire range of your human experience without hardening or closing yourself. It means that even in the midst of disappointment and defeat, you remain connected to people and to the sources of your most profound purposes.

With malice toward none; with charity for all.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts...

Takes one motherfucker to know another.

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

Ronald J. Sider

Care for the hurting and oppressed.

The vision of society articulated by Charles Finney and other evangelicals took special notice of those on the margins of society—women, slaves, the victims of war and abuse, prisoners, the poor—those Jesus called "the least of these.

Regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, never-Trumper, or apolitical, surely we can unite on that front and agree that the objectification and sexualization of girls and women is never acceptable on any level.

No one will hear our pleas for the unborn if, at the same time, we ignore the devaluation of other marginalized populations outside of the womb.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them,

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

What does it mean to see the Lord of the universe lying by the roadside starving and walk by on the other side? We cannot know. We can only pledge, in fear and trembling, not to kill him again.

My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.

This is the courageous thing to do: to try to reach the other side before it's too late.

Do good unto others..Cherish your loved ones while they are still there.. Guilt and repentance are the worst forms of penance ..