Quotes About Empathy

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them -- that's the essense of inhumanity.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

The most mundane details of life are not mundane if they're done with someone else in mind. When you're in love, everything's important.

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

The hardened soul melts at the tones of the singer, at the unspeakable pathos of the sounds that cannot lie; one almost believes—one believes at least in the belief of others. At last one understands, and is purged of intolerance and cynical contempt, and would kneel with the rest, in sheer human sympathy!

The reliable presence of people who love us facilitates our perception and toleration of painful reality and enriches our lives.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?

Affection is the broadest basis of good in life.

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life- to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories ...

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life? to strengthen each otherto be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?