Quotes About Empathy

I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Voyeur" [Chorus:] I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. [Verse:] Cause I am flawed When I am through those doors Cause I am flawed Times unsure I should do whatever will make you feel secure [Chorus: x11] I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

As Plato once said, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.

Azra, it must be recorded, had never any confidence in her son; and was the only woman, Jurgen felt, who really understood him.

Warm chairs. I don't know, like I'm sitting on someone's leftover germs.

to accept people as they are. If I wait for others to be what I want them to be, I will never accept them. By looking at what my brother is not, instead of at what he is, I will never be able to sympathize with him, struggle with him, hurt with him, or rejoice with him.

How do you look upon other men as astonishing organisms? Only by so regarding yourself.

You should not let a single person in the world, whatever sin that person may have committed, come before your eyes and depart without having found mercy with you. And should that person not ask for mercy from you, then you must ask it of him. And were that person to come to you a thousand times, continue to love them so as to lead them back to the right path. Always have compassion, for all of us have sinned. —Saint Francis of Assisi

What would it be like to be Christ? I mean, did He ever play ball? Did He ever knock a window out of somebody's house and did He ever have to explain to His dad that He had to borrow twelve dollars?

one hidden act of kindness is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of Christians so preoccupied with cultivating their prayer lives that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the barrio.

In mixed company, be readier to hear than to speak, and put people upon talking of what is in their own way; for then you will both oblige them, and be most likely to improve by their conversation.

If you would have a right to account of things from illiterate people, let them tell their story in their own way; if you put them upon talking according to logical rules, you will confound them.

And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for "weak, sick people" because he was frightened by any suggestion he could ever become that.

George Washington Carver said we should be kind to others: "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.

Stephen Covey. Ele diz que a maioria das pessoas não escuta com a intenção de compreender, mas de responder.

Querer ser o primeiro é amar a nós mesmos. Colocar o próximo em primeiro lugar e estar atento às suas necessidades é amá-lo. Pense em como perdoamos rapidamente as asneiras e absurdos que cometemos. Perdoamos as asneiras e absurdos do próximo com a mesma rapidez? Você não acha que também nos amamos muito mais rapidamente do que amamos os outros?

É importante tratar outros seres humanos exatamente como você gostaria que eles o tratassem.