Quotes About Empathy

Let your Teacher be Love itself.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.

Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

Teachers today can't take to a child.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

You become a real teacher when your understanding of the wants and needs of the student results in the student revealing her inner beauty.