Quotes About Empathy

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it's much easier to address issues where you have differences. Sports cut across boundaries of race and wealth. And if nothing else, we all have the weather in common.

Don't finish someone's sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn't make your idea any better.

people will show you their good side. Almost everybody has a good side. Just keep waiting. It will come out.

S HOWING GRATITUDE is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Almost everybody has a good side.

People are more important then thing.

People are more important then things.

Just because you're in the driver's seat," he'd say, "doesn't mean you have to run people over.

Halfhearted or insincere apologies are often worse than not apologizing at all because recipients find them insulting.

This student's eyes widened. "I admit it," I told him. "I'm a recovering jerk. And that gives me the moral authority to tell you that you can be a recovering jerk, too." For

Dac? ai f?cut ceva r?u în rela?ie cu altcineva, e ca ?i cum rela?ia ar suferi de o infec?ie. Iar scuzele adev?rate sunt ca antibioticele; scuzele proaste sunt ca sarea pe ran?.

I always liked telling my students: "Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.

Svake ve?eri, kad prije spavanja upitam Logana koji mu je bio najbolji dio dana, uvijek odgovori: »Igra s Dylanom.« Kada upitam koji mu je bio najgori dio dana, on opet odgovori: »Igra s Dylanom.« To dovoljno govori koliko su povezani kao bra?a.

While I could easily feel sorry for myself, that wouldn't do them, or me, any good.

I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids— more than anything else—need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen.

WE'VE PLACED a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities. Rights have to come from somewhere, and they come from the community. In return, all of us have a responsibility to the community. Some people call this the "communitarian" movement, but I call it common sense. This

I always liked telling my students: "Go out do for others what somebody did for you

If other people owe you an apology, and your words of apology to them are proper and heartfelt, you still may not hear from them for a while. After all, what are the odds that they get to the right emotional place to apologize at the exact moment you do?

People are more important than things. A car, even a pristine gem like my new convertible, was just a thing.

I apologize for what I did, but you also need to apologize to me for what you've done." (That's not giving an apology. That's asking for one.)

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

and that it would come here too. Paul

When a London gay switchboard's lines broke down because they were so overwhelmed with AIDS calls, telephone company employees refused to fix them because they were afraid of contracting AIDS through the wiring.