Quotes About Empathy

You guys writing on Bosnia don't hear our questions, because you don't speak our language.

No one can be the judge of another until he recognizes that he himself is as guilty for the crime as the one who committed it—and maybe more so.

When you come near to something that can't be made right, you have to approach it with love, and not vengeance. Vengeance is how we got into this in the first place.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Please," she whispered, her tears flowing unchecked. "Tell me what to say and I will say it gladly. If I have hurt your pride then take mine. I have no use for it without you.

Some people believe that [when] we choose our friends, we choose the people we care about, because they remind us of ourselves

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love.

Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

Because they have never tried to get to know her. People are afraid of things they don't understand.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

It is unthinkable and grotesque that we make the same mistake over and over again. There should be an uproar of children shouting, "What about me?" But they often can't speak and so their plight goes unnoticed...

He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.

Could mere loving be a life's work? Could it be a career like marriage or nursing the sick or going on the stage? Could it be adventure?

And the written words were footsteps, feet running hard to another person.