Quotes About Empathy

As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one's self to their number.

We're here now, we have the means to stop the suffering and therefore the duty to act.

Compassion is more than empathy; it is the living expression of the Golden Rule, to treat others as you would have them treat you. Compassion is the practice of empathy.

Conectar con personas que comparten las mismas pasiones que tú te desmuestra que no estás solo, que hay otros como tú y que, aunque tal vez haya muchos que no entiendan tu pasión, hay otros que sí.

interiores de otras personas, ver a través de sus ojos y sentir lo mismo que ellos. Podemos ser empáticos. Podemos anticipar el futuro e intentar hacerlo realidad. Estos poderes, la retrospección, la empatía y la premonición, se encuentran entre nuestros mejores recursos para dar forma una y otra vez a nuestras vidas.

The conventional academic curriculum is focused almost entirely on the world around us and pays little attention to the inner world. We see the results of that every day in boredom, disengagement, stress, bullying, anxiety, depression, and dropping out. These are human issues and they call for human responses.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you.

If we have a hair trigger on the exclusion gun, shouldn't it be aimed at those who are using their power to abuse someone who is in a weaker, more vulnerable position?

There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled—in short, from the perspective of those who suffer.

It's easier to offer easy answers when we are not the people facing the hard questions.

We have to be thoughtful about the burdens we insist that other people carry, especially when we don't have to carry those same burdens ourselves.

Jesus reveals salvation, as the Marxist critic and occasional atheist Terry Eagleton observes, to be a matter not 'of cult, law and ritual', but of 'feeding the hungry, welcoming the immigrants, visiting the sick, and protecting the poor, orphaned and widowed from the violence of the rich'.

Selma vjerovatno nije u pravu, ali ne osje?a nikakvu simpatiju prema ljudima koji se odri?u svog porijekla. .... Ne daj Bože da ikad prestane da pati zbog te bijede, da ikad zaboravi pogled tih seljanki, pogled pun nade, zatim prebacivanja kad su se vrata ko?ije zatvorila. ...znaju li uopšte da kao svi drugi imaju pravo na život

U ovih 6 mjeseci odkako je u Indiji svaki put kad vidi lj bi?a da služe kao tegle?a gotovo kao sami nosa?i gkao da smatraju da je to posao kao i svaki drugi, a Amir ju je upozorio da bi suvišna obazrivost dovela jedino do toga da ostanu bez hljeba. Napola uvjerena pomirila se sa tim pokušavaju?i osmjesima i nagradama da ublaži svoj osje?aj krivice.

When I'm reborn I'll be born, the next time, so I won't suffer only for myself like this.

No matter what her sins in a former life, may her illness, her pain, be transferred to me.

No one has written adequately of what happens when enough of the body's naked surface is pressed against another human being's. It is a slow dismantling of ego, a suspension of the instinct to distinguish Me from Not Me.

What is needed is not sight, but insight—I need to look at your visual "impairment" and infer that my own impairment might be the same or worse.

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

There's nothing loving or caring about a close parent-child relationship when it services the needs and feelings of a parent rather than the child.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.