Quotes About Empathy

When we share love with the lonely, the boomerang of blessing lands right back in our lap.

Did you know that when you save someone's life, it makes you their hero? Did you know that, even if that person is mad at your for saving their life, another person who may have been watching or who may have heard about it could be affected by what you did for that other person, and you could be a hero to them, too?

Fighting lets ye both say wha' needs to be said. Just be sure you fight clean, and dinna bring up old hurts or blame one another.

Stop looking as if you'd like to toss me from the window. Give me a hug, and go on to your dinner guest.

Dementia was an unforgiving illness, one that stole hope and crumbled pride.

Sometimes the little things are the big things.

I suppose you heard him yelling as the doctor set his leg. I never knew there were so many rude words in the English language. Or French, German, Italian, Latin,or....there was another language I didn't quite recognize. Greek.

Never underestimate the importance of what a woman says in bed. It's one of the few places they will tell you exactly what they are thinking.

Love can't cure a broken heart, but it can hold the two sides together while they heal.

Numbers people don't like being rushed, so back off.

Men never understand that all a woman truly wants is a man who will listen.Understand.Pay her bills.And,of course,love her madly even when her hips wide due to an unfortunate addiction to bon bons. - Lady Jersey to Mrs.Cowper,as the two watched dancers waltz at Almack's.

In the dolphin family, if one is lost, all are lost.

Taken food from a child.

Over the years I've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.

You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.

In 2004, Jacques Derrida said that a change was under way. Torture damages the inflicter as well as the inflicted. It's no coincidence that one of the Abu Ghraib torturers came to the military directly from a job as a chicken processor. It might be slow, Derrida said, but eventually the spectacle of our abuse of animals will be intolerable to our sense of who we are.

Do unto others' is an unnatural, inhuman behavior. You can understand why so many churches and churchgoers say it but so few achieve it. It goes against something fundamental in our natures. And this, then, is the human tragedy—that the common humanity we share is fundamentally based on the denial of a common shared humanity.

We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies

It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her.

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.

Empathy is also a natural human behavior, and natural to chimps as well. When we see someone hurt, our brains respond to some extent as if we'd been hurt ourselves.

We need a sort of reverse mirror test. Some way to identify those species smart enough to see themselves when they look at someone else. Bonus points for how far out the chain you can go. Double bonus points for those who get all the way to insects.

Like they say, you never know a person till you've done time with them.

Over the years I've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.