Quotes About Empathy

Before passing a judgement on somebody just give it a thought about what he or she went through.

As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.

Moreover, it is evident that life in societies would be utterly impossible without a corresponding development of social feelings, and, especially, of a certain collective sense of justice growing to become a habit.

Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.

Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.

And Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

A real relationship's based on trust and understanding, the sharing of little things. Moments of happiness and laughter. Realising you've both just had the same thought, or were about to say the same thing.

There, but for the grace of God, go you and I.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth.

In each of us is an infinite capacity to love, but only a finite capacity to hate.

he could see there were many people just like him: people alone and in pain, on the outside of life looking in.

Ethnographers adopt a particular stance toward people with whom they work. By word and action, in subtle ways and direct statements, they say, "I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?"[102]

THE GREATEST JOY IN LIFE IS HELPING OTHERS. SPLURGE ON IT!

The likelihood of meeting anyone who wouldn't make him feel even lonelier seemed increasingly remote. Life was a dwindling process now, not a building proposition. He couldn't imagine being with someone new, opening up, feeling appreciated and understood, without having to explain his dubious non sequiturs and increasingly arcane or redundant frame of reference.

Once someone loses trust, that's it, Gerald. It's gone. It's broken. You can't repair it with explanations. You can't wheedle trust back from someone.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

Hitler's power came from his ability to sense the fears and hopes of his audiences and give them back in heightened form.

Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.

Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world. And of course it was reciprocal; the world receded on him.

But he couldn't feel self-pity in the face of the memorial. He hadn't lost nearly enough as these children, who'd lost their homeland and, in many cases,their whole families. Perhaps they had gained something, too, though. They had at least escaped the concentration camps, been taken in by good, caring families, and had grown up to live their lives in relative freedom.

You can't let someone you love suffer an agony that gets worse every day and has no possibility of ever abating or ending, except in an even more drawn-out and painful death. Would