Quotes About Empathy

She has the acuity to sit inside an emotion and parse it.

Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

I'd been brought up not to think about the Others in terms of where they came from or who they were, to ignore all that—they were just Others. But maybe, now that I was one of them, they weren't Others anymore? If I was an Other and they were Others perhaps none of us were Others but instead we were a new Us. It was confusing.

People are basically good.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

i want move people..

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. —Ken Keyes, Jr.

I have a lot of faith in people.

We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.

Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of 'religion', whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness.

Children don't have hearts yet, not really. They haven't been hurt into the need for one.

Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

No Executive can value the worth of others unless he first learns to value himself

He believed that our humanity rests upon our ability to unite across different worlds of experience.

Meyer is a transcendent warmth, the listening ear of a total understanding and forgiveness, a humble wisdom.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.