Quotes About Empathy

took her in my arms and let her cry, and I was crying too. After she'd quieted some, I asked for her husband's number, and after I did the workup for rape, I called him. He'd been worried stiff, and was glad she was not dead. He couldn't know, yet, that part of her had died.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.

Don't cry over a lost friend. And remember, that person lost a friend too.

We all have a heartbeat.. We all have a soul.. We are all human. And that's all that matters

On est toujours le con de quelqu'un.

People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.

Respond to negative thoughts as you would to small children who do not know any better; simply smile and show them a better way to be.

If you know people who seem to be very wise and yet put others down, reject friends, and make people feel bad about themselves — no matter how high their words or what they teach — you can rest assured they do not love themselves.

You came to develop an open heart. You chose to be in all the circumstances that closed your heart in the past. You chose parents who did not know how to love you, criticized you often, lacked time to spend with you, and acted in ways you had judged impossible to love in other lifetimes. Yet, because they were your parents and you were their child, you found it in your heart to love them, and thus grew spiritually by learning to love behaviors you had previously judged unlovable.

You must stand up for everyone's right to be who they are— otherwise you may find one day that it is you who is singled out, who is seen as different, and then there will be no one to defend you." After

The woman next to me has no laces in her shoes and looks exhausted. She carries her belongings in a faded carrier bag. I cannot tell how old she is. Somewhere between forty and death.

My now wife Debbie is a therapist, and over and over she has witnessed that the best cure for distress is love.

The best doctors in the world are healers and not dealers!

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

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For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves

You can't judge a person by what they're doing, till you know why they're doing it.

Living with regrets over what we did, or didn't do, is a heavy burden to carry,