Quotes About Empathy

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?

Ultimately, it's about the love you give and the love you allow yourself to receive. Everything else fades away.

If you are a liar you naturally assume everyone is lying to you. If you're a cheat you assume everyone is cheating you. If you are loving you assume everyone is loving towards you. Your experience here is a reflection of your outward projection.

But there's a wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

My mum and dad taught me not to laugh at people who aren't laughing," she explained. "Besides, I think in life, the joke usually turns out to be on us.

And that, to me, embraces the very soul of the most important commandment you'll find anywhere in your Principles of Successful Termination : 'Do in others as you would have others do you in.

The commonest kinds of seemingly telepathic response are the anticipation by dogs and cats of their owners coming home; the anticipation of owners going away; the anticipation of being fed; cats disappearing when their owners intend to take them to the vet; dogs knowing when their owners are planning to take them for a walk; and animals that get excited when their owner is on the telephone, even before the telephone is answered.

She was always ready with her smile, and would willingly have lent it to anyone who was feeling unhappy.

On the open road we are all brothers.

Well, we are equals, in our fear as in our loneliness.

There is a distinction to be made between aloneness and loneliness.

We Must Love Someone We Must Love Someone If we are to justify Our presence on this earth. We must keep loving all our days, Someone, anyone, anywhere Outside our selves; For even the sarus crane Will grieve over its lost companion, And the seal its mate. Somewhere in life There must be someone To take your hand And share the torrid day. Without the touch of love There is no life, and we must fade away.

No life is more, or less, important or interesting than another—much of it, after all, is lived inside our heads.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part of mankind.

If, by telling a lie, one can make someone happy, why not tell the damn lie?

Try loving your enemies. If nothing else, you'll confuse them.

Live long, my friend, be wise and strong, But do not take from any man his song.

Keep an open mind. Different books, different faiths, often say the same thing.

The kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies.

kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies. A

In the West they say, 'Never talk to strangers.' In the East they say, 'Always talk to strangers.' It was this stranger who gave us sustenance on the road, just as strangers had given me company on the way to the Pindar Glacier. On the open road there are no strangers. You share the same sky, the same mountain, the same sunshine and shade. On the open road we are all brothers. The

All men are my friends. I have only to meet them.

It's funny how some miles seem longer than others. It depends on what you are thinking about, I suppose. What you are thinking and what I am thinking. If our thoughts agree, the miles are not so long. We get on better when we are thinking together than when we are talking together.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast