Quotes About Empathy

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

We not only need to be willing to give, but also to be open to receiving from others.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

It takes wisdom and discernment to minister to people in need. We must look beyond the apparent and seek to meet the needs of the whole person.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

When you live next to the cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone.

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

If thine enemy- be hungry, give him bread to eat.

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.

As the husband is, the wife is.

You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.