Quotes About Empathy

I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good for their country, come together to work for it. I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

We can never fully understand the hearts and minds of people . . . unless we can speak directly to them in their own language so that the implications, not just the words, come through clearly.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. —1 PETER 3:9

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. —ROMANS 12:14

I think people have this mistaken notion that if you have a couple of kids, it's not quite as terrible losing one of them because you still have the others. But love is unique, just as loss is.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels...I myself become the wounded person.

There have been several recent studies on oxytocin—the so-called love hormone—that show humans experience increased oxytocin levels whenever we gaze into the eyes of dogs. Canines also exhibit increased oxytocin levels.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Los llaneros son reservados con la gente que acaban de conocer —le respondió el médico—. Ten paciencia.

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

And all I need now is intellectual intercourse, a soul to dig the hole much deeper

I need a heart so pure that if it's stripped bare by dementia, it will survive.

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

Readers develop unique histories with the books they read. It may not be immediately apparent at the time of reading, but the person you were when you read the book, the place you were where you read the book, your state of mind while you read it, your personal situation (happy, frustrated, depressed, bored) and so on – all these factors, and others, make the simple experience of reading a book a far more complex and multi-layered affair than might be thought.

Do you have to sound so damned indifferent to it all? Here we are talking about how we're likely to be dead in a few hours and you're acting like it's only a minor inconvenience. ~"Spirey & the Queen