Quotes About Empathy

Sara was beginning to understand just how hard it was to be strong for everyone else around you when all you really wanted to do was curl up into a ball and be comforted yourself.

I hate rape cases. You don't throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, 'Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before?

Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the HMOs only give us so much time diatribe. Medicine is about giving scared people comfort and help for people whose pain level is matched only by their anxiety level.)

Argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong.

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

I'd prefer to have a world of grumpy considerate people than happy selfish ones.

Katrai gr?matai ir dv?sele - t? cilv?ka dv?sele, kurš gr?matu sarakst?jis, un to cilv?ku dv?seles, kuri gr?matu las?juši un kop? ar to sap?ojuši.

If we're happy, to be happy together. If we're are sad, to be sad together. To always know the other is there for us. The best of friends... and so much more.

No matter how much of it I've seen, other people's grief leaves me feeling embarrassed, as if I've peeked through their bedroom windows.

the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we're interested in them'.

I'm always so glad,' Sylvie murmured, 'that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.' 'You're very good at being yourself,' Ursula said, aware that it didn't necessarily sound like a compliment. 'Well, I've had years of practice.

Afterwards—because it turned out that there was to be an afterwards for Teddy—he resolved that he would try always to be kind. It was the best he could do. It was all that he could do. And it might be love, after all.

You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Men make the best friends.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.