Quotes About Empathy

The wise feels the pain often under the same situation where others find the pleasure.

There are basically two types of people who remain or seem mostly happy or ecstatic. One is wicked or unempathetic person who does not think anything truly good for others and Other is stupid or lunatic who can not think as what is actually good for oneself.

There are people who concoct a whole sensitive story to show the emotional connect with a social cause but the fact would be to either gain publicity or promote a brand/product through it only.

There comes a stage in the life of a person having feelings, when both i.e. speaking out and keeping mum on a matter that concerns everyone becomes equally painful.

Two women despite being seen often together as friends are actually many mile distance away mentally from each other; Two men in friendship in spite of living many miles distance away from each other could still feel connected internally like brothers.

Perhaps he would relive it all only when he sent his son here to study, to learn in their superb systems, to grow and be hurt and yet feel so alive in their strange world, amidst their alien and rude ways that somehow managed to be affectionate. But it would be long time from now

I guess every disaster, every tragedy in the world, my lad, is caused by someone's selfishness and refusal to recognize the rights of others.

all cruelty and passion must burn away at last to leave behind them only pity.

No one ever truly arrives! We just nudge each other along muddy ruts of suffering, occasionally peeking over the edges of our ruts in search of a better way...

Back in my own place, the sky burst in upon me from the window and I was reminded of a long-forgotten passage in War and Peace. Napoleon, walking through the battlefield, sees a dying soldier and, holding up the flag of France, declaims: "Do you know, my noble hero, that you have given your life for your country?" "Please! Please!" the soldier cries. "You are blotting out the sky.

The Americans of tomorrow, the America that is every day nearer coming to be, will be too wise, too open-hearted, too friendly-handed, to let the least last-comer at their gates knock in vain with his gifts unwanted.

I'm serious. He's beginning to understand.… When a person really loves something… or someone…" "Yes?" Jesse asked, softly, his lips brushing her ear. "You just have to…" Lucy looked away, over to the sun-drenched piazza, then back into Jesse's smiling face, into his warm, searching eyes, and the words came to her. "You just have to stand back and let them.

If you think your own life hard, and would like to leave it for a short hour I recommend you to beg, borrow or steal this tale, and read and see how the penguins live. It is all quite true.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

Poor trustful creatures! If I could have done it then, I would gladly have killed them rather than picture them starving on that floe out on the Ross Sea, or eaten by the exultant Killers that cruised around.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.

Only he who understands is really sad.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

What avails your wealth, if it makes you arrogant to the poor?

this kindness returns me to myself. it reminds me of the kindness of other things i love

There is a question I have learned to ask myself when I am feeling bothered about others: am I holding myself to the same standard I am demanding of them?