Quotes About Empathy

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Being human, we should bear all we can.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

Oh, the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!

The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink.

What should they know of England, who only England know?

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't fake.