Quotes About Empathy

The milk of human kindness was kept often in the larder, and the tea served with lemon.

When your life is shit, it's easy to forget just how many good people are in the world.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

The price one pays for having a kind man at one's elbow.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

Humanity does not differ in any profound way; there are not essentially different species of human beings. If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware of the injustice of discrimination and the tragic inhumanity of every kind of prejudice.

In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.

if I see myself only in terms of myself, I am always going to be wrong. To fully understand who I am and what I am capable of, I need to always see myself in terms of a community.

It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves--to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!

suffering breaks us until there's nothing left but gentleness

You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.

I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

But seeing and doing nothing isn't the worst thing," Hera had said. "The worst thing is to see and not to care.

Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one.

My definition of marketing is: "getting someone who has a need, to know, like, and trust you.

get your customers to know, like, and trust you more.

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

We have to be tolerant of other people's points of view; we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable, without claiming that we have a monopoly on the truth.

At a Trump rally, many people were driven to anger and blame; there was name-calling and finger-pointing; there was a certain "my way or the highway" tone. At a Kasich event, people were given hope and all kinds of reasons to lift each other up instead of holding each other down; there was a "we're all in this soup together" tone.