Quotes About Empathy

If I'm going to fly around all over the country telling these folks they're my partners, I sure owe it to them to at least hear them out when they're upset about something.

My favorite buyer program is one called Eat What You Cook. Once a quarter, every buyer has to go out to a different store and act as manager for a couple of days in the department he or she buys merchandise for. I guarantee you that after they've eaten what they cooked enough times, these buyers don't load up too many Moon Pies to send to Wisconsin, or beach towels for Hiawatha, Kansas.

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

We must love all human beings, giving even our last drop of blood for all our siblings of this great human family.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

When Taimour was hit by a bullet in the left shoulder, he began to stagger toward the man who shot him, reaching out with his hands. He remembered the look in the soldier's eyes. 'He was about to cry,' Taimour said three years later.

So afraid to go outside, to be happy, to be with other people, because they do not understand what it is like.

It's good to know that I'm not the only unsuicidal person thinking about killing herself.

It hurts me to know that there are other women out there in the world that could make you happy.

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.

He that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist,While he that hears makes fearful actionWith wrinkled brows.Shakesp.King John.

He is a good man, who grieves rather for him that injures him, than for his own suffering; who prays for him, that wrongs him, forgiving all his faults; who sooner shews mercy than anger; who offers violence to his appetite, in all things endeavouring to subdue the flesh to the spirit. This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a christian.Taylor'sGuide to devotion.   

Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us never think about us as much as we think about them, and that is the ultimate irony: their deeds live inside us, festering, while they live out in the world, plucking peaches off trees, biting juicily into them, their minds on things lovely and sweet.

Were it but to avoid an interview with a father who seem'd to have been too much used to womens tears to be moved by them;

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

TRUE GENEROSITY is greatness of soul. It incites us to do more by a fellow-creature than can be strictly required of us. It obliges us to hasten to the relief of an object that wants relief; anticipating even such a one's hope or expectation.

What good creatures are we women!

Unhappy, indeed, must the woman be, who has drawn upon her the helpless pity of the man she loves!