Quotes About Empathy

as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. 'The subject exhibited a pain response.' But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her .

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

The greatest pleasure in life is to be understood, is it not? But who in the world does an artist like you or me find to understand

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

I've noticed that there is danger in spending all this time writing about those "publicans and sinners" over there in the great and spacious building. If our spot near the tree of life becomes a Rameumptom where we congratulate each other on our chosen-ness and look down on everyone else, then we're occupying nothing more than a branch office of the great and spacious.

Humanity one chooses. Men who choose inhumanity are merely upright beasts.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

My mom once told me, back when I was a kid, that I would never understand girls unless I understood the fear of being lonely and alone. She said no girl would ever understand boys unless she understood the fear of being dishonored and defeated.

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

In particular, we must observe   this general rule, that we cordially desire and labor for the welfare   of the whole human race. Thus it will come to pass, that we shall not   only give way to the exercise of God's mercy, but shall also wish the   conversion of those who seem obstinately to rush upon their own   destruction. In

when we are angered by the sins of   others, we should beware lest a temptation of an opposite kind should   take possession of our minds.

We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

there is no real shortcut to gaining someone's trust,

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.