Quotes About Empathy

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

These fellow mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are.

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

How beautiful a day can be When kindness touches it!

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

their happiness as some other tribe's unhappiness. As a quintessentially American voice, that of Robert Frost,

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

In your business or in your close relationships, if you want people to perform Herculean feats on your behalf, they must know that you care about them.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal feelings. His job is to maintain a ruthless sense of proportion while keeping the coldness of his calculation to himself.

It is good, as I have said, to be neither victim nor victimizer. Unfortunately, it is not possible. What

I'm sorry, I can't hear you. My ears are still ringing from that big boom your head made when it hit the stairs. Is your brain okay? Because your skull sounded hollow.