Quotes About Empathy

Truly tolerant people are hard to offend.

We need but three things to change the world: a brain, a heart, and a friend.

Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.

You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

The gift of giving is to see the receiver give to someone else.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Blacking believes that 'feeling with the body' is as close as anyone can get to resonating with another person.

At an emotional level, there is something 'deeper' about hearing than seeing; and something about hearing other people which fosters human relationships even more than seeing them.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

In general, if you can't imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you probably just don't understand it yet.

Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.

Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought.

And everyone wants to know: Who? Why? The victims ask the hardest of all the questions: How is it possible that the person I loved so much lit no spark of humanity in you?

On ne parle pas assez quand il en est temps et les âmes se boucanent côte à côte.

Where are the people?" resumed the little prince at last. It's a little lonely in the desert…" It is lonely when you're among people, too," said the snake.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.