Quotes About Empathy

Either teach them better if it be in thy power; or if it be not, remember that for this use, to bear with them patiently, was mildness and goodness granted unto thee.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are one. The things ordained for you -- teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you -- treat them with love. With real love.

39. The things ordained for you -- teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you -- treat them with love. With real love.

That bees don't behave like this—or any other animals with a sense of community. Don't do it sardonically or meanly, but affectionately—with no hatred in your heart. And not ex cathedra or to impress third parties, but speaking directly. Even if there are other people around.

It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being

Enquanto não observa o que se passa na mente dos demais, raramente se viu um homem infeliz; aquele, porém, que não observa o que se passa em sua própria mente, será necessariamente infeliz.

The noblest kind retribution is to become not like your enemy

42. I have no right to do myself an injury. Have I ever injured anyone else if I could avoid it?

nunca se sabe ao certo quando os homens incorrem em erro, pois muitas das suas ações, que nos parecem perversas a primeira vista, são feitas com boas intenções, ou ao menos sem más intenções. É necessário conhecer inúmeros pormenores e circunstâncias antes de poder julgar com alguma segurança a conduta alheia.

Love all people, including those who do wrong. They may be acting unintentionally, out of ignorance. Even if they are acting intentionally, they can't harm you—that is, they can't make you a worse person than before. Only you can harm yourself, by fanning the flames of hatred and resentment. When someone wrongs you, identify the mistaken ideas that motivated their behavior. Then, instead of being angry, you'll pity them.

selfishness; both of them will do you harm. When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being—and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners.

Be concerned only that your own thoughts, words, and actions are just and generous. In the race of life, stay in your own lane and focus on the finish line; don't gawk at the missteps of others.

People find pleasure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.

If it does not harm the community, it does not harm its members. When you think you've been injured, apply this rule: If the community isn't injured by it, neither am I. And if it is, anger is not the answer. Show the offender where he went wrong.

We're all human beings. Why hate anyone, flatter anyone, lord over anyone, or bow before anyone?

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion

You can't set down rules for others until you have first followed them yourself.

So it is that we have more respect for what our neighbours will think of us than we have for ourselves.

Quando alguém lhe difama ou odeia, ou quando clamam contra a sua pessoa insultos similares, busca penetrar suas almas e ver como eles realmente são. Assim, verá que não vale a pena se esforçar para que tais homens mudem de opinião ao seu respeito.

No time for reading. For controlling your arrogance, yes. For overcoming pain and pleasure, yes. For outgrowing ambition, yes. For not feeling anger at stupid and unpleasant people—even for caring about them—for that, yes.

When you face someone's insults, hatred, whatever Ã¢â'¬Â¦ look at his soul. Get inside him. Look at what sort of person he is. You'll find you don't need to strain to impress him.

I often wonder how it is that most people value their own lives above others, yet value other's opinions of them over their own self-opinions.

Propio del hombre es amar incluso a los que tropiezan. Y eso se consigue, en cuanto se te ocurra pensar que son tus familiares, y que pecan por ignorancia y contra su voluntad, y que dentro de poco ambos estaréis muerto y que, ante todo, no te dañó puesto que no hizo a tu guía interior peor de lo que era antes