Quotes About Empathy

Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and even convictions.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear;

The world rests upon the poor . . . .

a stone image shed a miraculous tear of compassion over the incertitudes of life and death....

Slavery is an awful thing, stammered out Kayerts in an unsteady voice. Frightful—the sufferings, grunted Carlier with conviction.

He was easily sorry for people.

No, it's impossible. It's impossible to tell anyone what it feels like to be you. It's impossible. We live the same way that we dream—alone

He was a corpulent man, with a gift for sly chaffing, which to the end of his life he exercised in his intercourse with his son, a little pityingly, as if upon a half-witted person.

Charles Gould did not open his heart to her in any set speeches. He simply went on acting and thinking in her sight. This is the true method of sincerity.

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

Adev?rata via?? a unui om este aceea care i se acord? în mintea altora pe baza respectului sau a dragostei fireÈ™ti.

Sympathy is a form of fear, above the vulgar conception of time.

don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars.

Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.

we must judge men not so much by what they do, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough, either in painting, music or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough.

It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset.

What had she to do with the justice or injustice of other people? She had to endure and love, and that she did.

looking out for the other guy isn't just good for the soul; it's good for business. The

Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who identified with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.

The intent here is not to suppress whatever feelings we may have, but to communicate in a way that fosters connection rather than divisiveness.

If we're more accepting, more peaceful, less judgmental, less selfish, then the whole world is that much more loving and peaceful, that much less judgmental and selfish.

The world is like that boat, tossed by the storms of greed and hatred and fear.

At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens when we take the time to stop and feel what is really going on—even for just a few moments before rushing on with our lives.